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Brussels approves of joint venture 50:50 between Trenitalia and Veolia Transport
From December the newco it will start services nocturnes on the lines Paris-Venice and Paris-Rome
July 21, 2011
The EU commission has approved of the proposal of creation of the common society for the performance of services of international rail shipment of passengers between the Trenitalia Italian (group Italian Railroads of the State) and the French private operator Veolia Transport, joint common enterprise that franchising contracts of to fleeting services of rail shipment in the United Kingdom will participate also to contests of contract for relative concession or.
The Commission has explained to have in particular concluded that the proposed operation does not give rise to problems under the profile of the competition, because Veolia Transport is a new operator in the markets interested from the operation and because Trenitalia and the French company do not operate in the same markets.
The Commission has specified to have estimated also the vertical connections deriving from the fact that Italian Railroads of the State allow access to the railway infrastructure through Italian Railway Net (RFI), the manager of the infrastructure controlled from the Italian railway group, and to the services of traction (that is the supply of locomotives and leading for the conventional trains) through Trenitalia. Moreover, regarding the drafts Paris-Rome, Paris-Venice and Paris-Milan, the Commission has excluded that the operation you increase the possibility for Railroads of the State to preclude to its competitors the access to the railway infrastructure and it induces it to make it. In particular, regarding the Paris-Milan draft the Commission considers for the future the management of two concurrent services to high speed by the created SNCF and of the newco probable from Trenitalia and Veolia.
At last the Commission has estimated that for services of traction, than in Italy still subject to they are determined requisitioned national as the technical standards for the locomotives or the certification for the crew, after the conclusion of the operation between Trenitalia and Veolia Transport sussisterà however a sufficient availability of alternative suppliers of services.
The group Italian Railroads of the State has evidenced that, with the green light of Brussels, a new player is born on the ready European railway market to compete on the international markets is in the high speed that in the fleeting services of long distance, regional transboundaries and. The newco, whose brand will be returned public after the summer - it has anticipated the group - it will be a by right French limited company with center to Paris and will begin to carry out own activity with services nocturnes on the routes Paris-Venice and Paris-Rome from the next month of December. Moreover the new society previews to start in the medium period the services on line high speed between Paris and Brussels and Paris and Milan and is estimating also the opportunity to start own services on conventional line between Turin and Lyon and the participation on for services railway contests in Europe, in particular in Great Britain. Italian railroads of the State have specified that in the next few days the new society will formalize own structures of governance and will set off the activities that will beginning from allow the start of the commercialization of own services the October month.
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