FS Italiane, CEO Battisti: “Investment plan for the development of economy and tourism”

The FS Italiane Group supports the development of the Italian economy and tourism sector. The investment plan plans to generate growth, jobs and income over the next 10 years to allow the new generations to live in a more sustainable and more competitive country, better in services for citizens and tourists.

“It is important to return to those fundamental values ​​which are the centrality of the person and, as companies, not only think about maximizing profit but aiming to generate shared value especially in areas where it is most needed”, he declared Gianfranco Battisti, CEO and General Manager of the FS Italiane Group at the Meeting for Friendship among Peoples underway in Rimini.

“The crisis generated by the coronavirus is an accelerator to set up those discontinuity changes that have not been there so far”, continued Battisti. “Then there is also the issue of training – added the CEO of FS Italiane – because training towards new professions is a way to face this crisis in an innovative way”.

“To help generate value we envision a investment plan in new physical and digital infrastructures in full coherence with the European guidelines of the Green New Deal and the digital agenda. We have allocated 12 billion euros for the purchase of 2,000 new means of transport including ecologically sustainable trains and buses and 4 billion for digitalization to improve the relationship with the end customer and recover the technological gap ”, underlined Battisti.

“Land new infrastructure they will guarantee sustainable development to those who are today the ‘millennials’ to give them a more competitive country in the global context. It will be essential to rethink the offer of the travel experience, putting people and health safety at the center, reviewing the model on business and leisure traffic, also rediscovering forms of slow tourism through night trains and historic trains, and redistributing tourist flows. “.

“Finally – concluded Battisti – in local public transport it is necessary to aim for complete electric mobility, while in the transport of goods it will be essential to shorten the supply chain. It will then be very important to integrate mobility platforms “.

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