The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport in Italy approved, with financing from the Italian Financial Security Committee (FSC), EUR 11.5 billion for infrastructure and transport, out of which about EUR 8.9 billion are allocated for the upgrade of the RFI program contract 2016 (Rete ferroviaria italiana – Italian Railways), approved by the CIPE (The Interministerial Committee for the Economic Policy).
In particular, the “Iron Treatment” program (in Italian – Cura del Ferro) focuses on three main themes, passenger transport, safety and corridors.
„The so-called “Iron Treatment” says the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Graziano Delrio – takes on remarkable dimensions, and is specified with EUR 8.9 billion of the RFI program contract to which must be added at most EUR 1.8 billion where EUR 2.1 billion represent interventions of regional railways by the FSC. Expenditures on railways exceed EUR 11 billion, to which must be added EUR 300 million for the safety of the railways granted the exclusive competence of the regions. There is an iron care policy and, within it, a special policy focus on regional lines and their safety.”
The “Iron Treatment” also means that Italy finances the construction lots of big corridors within the RFI program we have “a strong investment (EUR 1,630 billion) on the fourth batch of the third passage for the Genoa – Rotterdam rail corridor and therefore , the most important Italian corridor for freight transport between North and South with the funding of the fourth lot of the other important European project, the Brenner corridor (EUR 1.2 billion).
An additional investment of over EUR 1.7 billion is on the A / V in the South, in particular Naples – Bari and Catania – Palermo. „ A package of resources that indicates the strategy: in addition to the corridors, the AV in the South “where we have already published notices and preliminary construction sites of the Napoli-Bari are completed, have already been published notices of Naples – Gate – Frasso Telesino and now they finance other subsequent lots to give continuity to the works.” Minister Delrio added.
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