Mercitalia Rail, a company of the group's Logistics Hub Italian State Railways, has started the transport of new Frecciarossa 1000 of Trenitalia, the company of the Polo FS passengers, from the Hitachi Rail plant in Pistoia to the Test Center in Velim, Czech Republic. They have already been made two trips to transport the ETR1000 in the direction of the test circuit, to which is added that of the new Frecciarossa exhibited at the end of September at Innotrans, the Berlin fair dedicated to to the world of transport. In the coming months, the return trips to Pistoia and further connections to other Italian sites for train certification.

Every Frecciarossa 1000 transported in the Czech Republic, which is consisting of eight carriages and two shield wagons, it has a length of about 200 meters and a weight of over 450 tons. At Innotrans it is a train was transported in a reduced composition with four carriages and two shield wagons, for a total length of 130 meters and a weight of 280 tons. Services are part of a race awarded by Hitachi Rail to Mercitalia Rail in recent months.