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Rete Ferroviaria Italiana

Rete Ferroviaria Italiana is the Italian railway infrastructure manager, subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato, a state-owned holding company. RFI is the owner of Italy’s railway network, it provides signalling, maintenance and other services for the railway network.

Italy to invest €5.7 million in railway project at La Spezia port

La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) November 15, 2018 – Italy’s Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport (MIT) and state-run railway infrastructure...

Italy’s RFI to invest €6.6 million in Livorno, Piombino ports

Livorno, Spain (PortSEurope) October 25, 2018 – Italian railway operator Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) plans to invest €6.6 million ($7.5 million) in two...

Italy’s Bluferries adds €14.5 million ship to its fleet

Messina, Italy (PortSEurope) October 24, 2018 – Italian ferry company Bluferries has invested €14.5 million ($16.5 million) to expand its fleet by adding...

Bluferries takes over Messina-Reggio Calabria ports passenger service

Messina, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) October 1, 2018 – Starting today, the Bluferries shipping company will operate a fast passenger service across the...

RFI to reopen Genoa rail link

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) September 18, 2018 – Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) has announced that the railway line, blocked by the collapsed Morandi...

RFI brings forward re-opening of Genoa railway links

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 27, 2018 – Given the emergency situation in Liguria following the collapse of the Morandi viaduct, FS Italiane has...

Switzerland waits to see effect of Morandi bridge collapse on Genoa port trade

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 27, 2018 – Genoa port is a strategic entry point for many goods transported to Switzerland and the Morandi bridge...

FS Italiane: connect national railway network and ports to facilitate goods exchange in Europe

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) June 28, 2018 – The 6th Global Rail Freight Conference (June 26-28, 2018) has discussed the urgent need to increase rail...

Venice port sees rail traffic up 14.5% in Jan-May 2018

Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) June 24, 2018 – Rail wagons moved at the port during the first five months of 2018 were 43,896, up 14.5% compared to the...

AdSP del Mare Adriatico Settentrionale (Venice) and RFI sign agreement

Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) May 12, 2018 – After the signature of an agreement in February 2018, to identify the necessary steps “for the updating...

New breakwater, ports of Genoa entrusts feasibility project to Invitalia

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 15, 2018 – An agreement has been signed between Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale (AdSP...

RFI, Central Tyrrhenian port authority to join forces in Naples port overhaul project

Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) April 12, 2018 – Italian railway infrastructure operator Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) and the Authority of the Central...

MSC eyes Naples port-Nola dry port rail link

Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) February 15, 2018 – Representatives of the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) plan to discuss on February 16 the potential...

Venice and Chioggia – Agreement between RFI-Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Settentrionale

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) February 12, 2018 – RFI (Rete Ferroviaria Italiana) and Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Settentrionale...

Port of Trieste announces record 2017 traffic statistics

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) January 28, 2018 – Commenting on Trieste port’s 2017 performance, President Zeno D’Agostino of Autorita’ di...

Genoa port to launch railway upgrade of PSA Voltri-Prà terminal in March

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) January 22, 2018 – Genoa port plans to start the project for the increase of the capacity of the railway access to the PSA...

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