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The Mercitalia Group
Mercitalia Group is the group of companies of the Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane that works in freight transports and logistics. Starting from January 2017, it has the mission of overhauling and relaunching the FS Group’s freight business, by developing integrated solutions which can get the most out of rail transport.
Mercitalia Group is composed by eight companies: Mercitalia Logistics is the holding company which is also specialized to valorize the real estate value of logistics facilities, and in integrated logistics services. Mercitalia Logistics controls Mercitalia Rail, which is the largest Italian rail freight company; the TX Logistik Group, which is Germany’s second-largest rail freight company, operating in many European countries; Mercitalia Intermodal, Italy’s largest combined transport operator, and the third largest in Europe; Mercitalia Transport & Services, which specializes in road freight transport and value-added logistics; Mercitalia Shunting & Terminal, one of the largest intermodal terminal operator in Italy, specialized in shunting rail and maintenance of rolling stock activities, design, construction and maintenance of railway infrastructure; TERALP (Terminal AlpTransit), which specializes in building cutting-edge intermodal terminal.
The creation of an integrated group of companies for freight transport and logistics will optimize services, within a coordinated and synergetic operating model, allowing the Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane Group to be competitive and to have a more relevant position in the market.
Mercitalia Group turns over around a billion Euros a year, employing about 5.000 people and has a fleet of around 26.000 wagons and nearly 700 locomotives. Important investments will be made over the next ten years: rollingstock will be modernised and expanded (wagons and electric locomotives for both the domestic and European markets); and three latest-generation intermodal terminals will be built in Milan, Brescia and Piacenza in order to fully exploit the freight traffic increase between Italy and the rest of Europe allowed by the new transalpine lines across Switzerland. Significant investment will also be made in information technology and safety systems, as well as strategic acquisitions of companies so as to grow the business at both a national and international level.
The strategies that Mercitalia Group will deploy to compete in the European logistics and freight transport market will concentrate on the large transport transalpine rail Corridors to/from Italy, the main rail backbones connecting northern and southern Italy, interconnection between the min areas of economic activity and the largest ports some important traffic routes between industrial and commercial centres in Europe our country and the European countries where we decide to operate enlargement of our presence on the value chain, both up and downstream from rail traction.
MERCITALIA RAIL SRL
Mercitalia Rail is dedicated to freight transport by rail. It operates in Italy and abroad, promoting, attaining and managing every initiative and service regarding the freight transport by rail field, as well as any instrumental, complementary and connected activity. Call for expression of interest for the supply of new electric locomotives with full maintenance service
MERCITALIA LOGISTICS
The logistics services of Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane are entrusted to Mercitalia Logistics SpA. The company has logistics infrastructures throughout the national territory and is present on the market with its own Business Units.
MERCITALIA TRANSPORT & SERVICES
Mercitalia Transport & Services studies, organises (either directly or indirectly), produces, manages and sells transport and logistics services in Italy and abroad, to be carried out mainly for Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane companies.
MERCITALIA SHUNTING & TERMINAL
Mercitalia Shunting & Terminal manages centres equipped for intermodal transport, even at the service of interports or similar structures, and it also carries out terminal services, manages the transport of third-party freight and products in general using tank containers, containers, cisterns, rail tankers and railway carriages.
MERCITALIA INTERMODAL
Mercitalia Intermodal is one of the largest European operators that manages, organises and markets Combined Rail-Road Transport services. Mercitalia Intermodal works both nationally and internationally, managing a network of trains that connects more than 150 intermodal terminals located throughout Europe.
TX LOGISTIK
Established in 1999 at Bad Honnef, TX LOGISTIK is today one of the largest railway transport companies in Europe. It designs transport networks without “boundaries”, and develops personalised freight transport solutions from A to Z.
TERALP
TerAlp (Terminal AlpTransit Srl) produces and manages freight railway terminals in Northern Italy with the purpose of developing – within areas in the heart of the existing railway stops of Milano Smistamento and Brescia, currently the property of Mercitalia Logistics – front running intermodal terminals dedicated to the unaccompanied combined transport of freight and equipped with rail-rail and rail-road transfer systems of the Intermodal Transport Units (Unità di Trasporto Intermodale (UTI).