THELLO, the open-access joint venture between Trenitalia and Transdev, increased the number of direct trains between Nice and Milan from one to three train pairs from April12.
TRENITALIA has placed a €98m order with AnsaldoBreda for 70 additional Vivalto double-deck coaches, which will be used on regional services in Liguria, Veneto, and Lazio.
TRENITALIA has announced plans to remove two of its train ferries from the Straits of Messina, which will result in the loss of its daytime inter-city services from the Sicilian cities of Palermo and Siracuse to Naples and Rome, and the overnight service to Milan.
THE launch of two new rolling stock fleets for the Italian region of Tuscany was marked at Florence Santa Maria Novella station on February 13, when trains of both types were formally presented to regional president Mr Enrico Rossi by Mr Orazio Iacono, Trenitalia's national director of regional transport.
TRENITALIA has signed two contracts with AnsaldoBreda for rolling stock maintenance services.
TRENITALIA launched the first high-speed services to Rome Leonardo da Vinci airport on December 14, when selected Frecciargento services were extended to serve the airport station at Fiumicino.
ITALY's autonomous province of South Tyrol has extended its agreement with Trenitalia to provide regional services up to 2024 in a €36m per year contract.
TRENITALIA has signed a €250m 10-year contract with AnsaldoBreda to maintain the fleet of 50 Frecciarossa 1000 (ETR 1000) high-speed trains being supplied by a consortium of the Italian manufacturer and Bombardier.
ALSTOM's new Italian fleet monitoring centre at Sesto San Giovanni in Milan was officially opened on September 30 by Lombardy regional councillor for infrastructure and transport Mr Alberto Cavalli and Alstom Ferroviaria CEO Mr Louis Bertina.
THE first of eight DMUs being supplied by CAF, Spain, was presented in Cagliari in southern Sardinia on July 25 by the new president of Sardinia Region, Mr Francesco Pigliaru, and transport councillor Mr Massimo Deiana.