Trenitalia
| Trenitalia SpA
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| legal form | Società per azioni |
| founding | 2000 |
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Rome , Italy
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| Number of employees | 27,639 (2017) |
| sales | EUR 5.32 billion (2017) |
| Branch | Rail transport |
| Website | www.trenitalia.com |
Trenitalia is an Italian railway company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS). The company was created in 2000 when the freight and passenger transport divisions were separated from the FS.
The freight and logistics division of the company was in 2016 in the sub holding company Mercitalia summarized.
passenger traffic
Trenitalia operates various types of train in long-distance transport within Italy under the common brand Le FRECCE ( the arrows ). One differentiates between three categories Frecciarossa, Frecciargento and Frecciabianca. The company is the market leader in rail transport in Italy.
On the high-speed lines Torino - Milano , Roma - Napoli , on the Direttissima Firenze - Roma and other high-speed lines, the Frecciarossa multiple units run at up to 300 km / h. Since 2012 Trenitalia has had competition from the private company Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori , which operates the routes with the Alstom AGV multiple unit .
In Italy, the regions responsible for regional transport are those that sign service contracts with a transport company for a period of six years.
The fleet includes the E.464 series locomotives , the ETR 500 multiple units and the Vivalto and Minuetto regional trains.
Trenitalia attaches very little importance to international traffic , and in 2009 Trenitalia withdrew completely from long-distance traffic on the Brenner axis . The cross-border EC connections from Milan, Bologna, Venice and Verona to Munich should then have been discontinued. At short notice, DB and ÖBB decided to operate the trains themselves on the entire route using the so-called Brenner cooperation service. For legal reasons, this is done in cooperation with the EVU LeNORD on Italian territory . Since LeNORD has now merged from Trenitalia to Trenord with the Lombardy regional office , Trenitalia is now indirectly involved in this traffic again. Trenitalia has been operating EuroCity in Switzerland together with SBB since 2010 after the failure of Cisalpino .
deals
| designation | Full name | description | Wagon offer |
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| FR AV | Frecciarossa | High-speed train (up to 300 km / h) between the major cities Turin – Milan – Bologna – Florence – Rome – Naples – Salerno. Hourly non-stop connection between Milan and Rome. | 11 wagons with 574 seats and a dining car. |
| FA AV | Frecciargento | High-speed train (up to 250 km / h) between the northeast such as u. a. Venice, Padua, Bolzano, Bologna, Verona, Milan and the south, from Rome to Lecce and Reggio Calabria. | 7–9 cars with 489 seats and a dining car. |
| FB AV | Frecciabianca | High-speed train (up to 200 km / h), not suitable for the new lines (25 kV alternating current, ETCS). Important train type on the existing lines, the backbone of the connection with the Adriatic and Tyrrhenian coasts. | 7–9 cars with 489 seats and a dining car. |
| EC | EuroCity | International train that connects Italy with its neighboring countries. Usually subject to global pricing . | Approx. 7–14 seated cars and 1–2 dining cars |
| EN | EuroNotte / Night | International night train . Usually subject to global pricing. | approx. 10–14, always with couchette and sleeping car , usually also with 2nd class seated car . |
| IC | InterCity | Comfortable express train that connects Italy's major cities. | approx. 2–10 wagons and some dining cars or minibars. Always runs 2nd class cars, sometimes also 1st class. |
| ICN | InterCity Notte / Night | As Intercity guided night train . Reservation required | Approx. 7-14 wagons, always with couchette and sleeping cars , mostly also with 2nd class seated carriages . |
| RV | Regional Veloce | Regional express train that, compared to the regional one, only stops at the more important stations | approx. 5–10 wagons, always leads 2nd class, partly also 1st class |
| R. | Regional | Regional train that stops in (almost) all train stations | approx. 3 to 10 wagons, including multiple units, low-floor and double-deck wagons. Only runs 2nd class cars. |
| S. | Suburbano | Suburban train, generic name in the Milan S-Bahn network | approx. 3 to 10 wagons, including multiple units, low-floor and double-deck wagons. Only runs 2nd class cars. |
| M. | Metropolitano | City train, only in city traffic near Naples |
Germany
Trenitalia owns 51% of the shares in the German railway company Netinera ; the remaining 49% belong to the Luxembourg-based Cube Infrastructure Fund . The Beteiiung created in 2011 through the acquisition of Arriva Germany, the UK parent company Arriva PLC from the German Bahn AG had been bought. DB had to sell its German parts of the company due to antitrust requirements . In this train, Arriva Germany was renamed to Netinera.
Great Britain
Via its subsidiary Trenitalia UK and under the brand c2c , the company operates passenger services between London Fenchurch Street in an eastbound direction to Southend-on-Sea , north of the Thames estuary on the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway network . The c2c franchise was bought from the National Express Group on February 10, 2017 .
Also in 2017, Trenitalia UK entered into a cooperation with the British FirstGroup and took over 30% of the joint venture First Trenitalia . As the successor to Virgin Trains , First Trenitalia received the franchise for long-distance services on the West Coast Main Line in 2019 , which is operated under the Avanti West Coast brand . The concession also includes the planning and the first phase of operation on the High Speed 2 high-speed line.
Freight transport
In 2016, the goods and logistics division was spun off from the Trenitalia group and has since operated as an independent company with several business areas, e.g. B. Mercitalia Terminal.
Mercitalia Rail (formerly: Trenitalia Cargo) is the freight railway company of the state railway company Ferrovie dello Stato and transports 28 billion tonne-kilometers annually and owns more than 30,000 freight wagons. The share of international traffic is 53% and is very important for the Italian steel industry. The company faces stiff competition, such as B. from SBB Cargo , DB Cargo or SNCF Géodis . The single wagon load traffic was largely discontinued.
The sister company TX Logistik is a Europe-wide, private railway company and owns several multi-system locomotives .
Finances
Between 2004 and 2009 Trenitalia increased sales from 4 to 5.6 billion euros. Despite this, the company had financial problems, with net debt in 2007 totaling 5.67 billion euros. Unyielding trade unions, partly outdated rolling stock and a lack of transparency in management put a strain on the company. By 2009, however, Trenitalia managed to reduce its debt and achieve a net profit of 90.60 million euros. From then on, sales continued to grow year after year. In the 2017 financial year, the company achieved sales of 5.318 billion euros and a net profit of 399 million euros.
See also
- List of European railway companies
- List of railway lines in Italy
- List of Italian locomotives and railcars
Web links
- Trenitalia SpA website (Italian, English, French, German, Chinese)
- Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane SpA website (Italian, English)
- GrandiStazioni
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Trenitalia SpA Annual Report 2017. fsitaliane.it (English version - PDF, 148 pp.)
- ↑ Evaluation of the further development possibilities of SBB Cargo . (PDF, page 9 of 52), November 1, 2017. Accessed June 24, 2020.
- ↑ DB-ÖBB EuroCity ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Italians rename Arriva Germany to Netinera. In: Lausitzer Rundschau Online. April 2, 2011, accessed June 24, 2020 .
- ^ Trenitalia completes the acquisition of c2c. (No longer available online.) C2c , February 2017, archived from the original on February 15, 2017 ; accessed on February 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Great Britain: FirstGroup and Trenitalia present new name "Avanti West Coast". In: Locomotive Report. November 29, 2019, accessed June 24, 2020 .
- ^ Italy: Italian Railways re-launch freight business under Mercitalia - UIC Communications. Retrieved June 24, 2020 .