{"id":167778,"date":"2025-01-17T19:35:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T09:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/?p=59106"},"modified":"2025-01-17T19:35:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T09:35:40","slug":"italy-records-rail-freight-drop-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=167778","title":{"rendered":"Italy records rail freight drop in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The past year has not brought major success to Italian rail freight. The first estimates are counting on a loss of around one million train-kilometres compared to the year prior.<\/strong><br \/>\n<span id=\"more-59106\"><\/span>The drop in driven train-kilometres in the freight sector was reported by Giuseppe Rizzi, general director of rail freight association Fermerci, write Italian media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRail freight transport concluded a complex 2024 marked by significant difficulties. The first estimated end-of-year data confirm a loss of approximately 1 million train-kilometres compared to 2023\u201d, Rizzi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe overall reduction, compared to 2021 \u2013 the year of post-pandemic recovery \u2013 has thus reached 5,5 per cent. Since then, approximately 3 million train-kilometres have been lost, demonstrating a progressive contraction in the sector\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<h2>The positives<\/h2>\n<p>Nevertheless, the Fermerci director also pointed out two positive developments. For one, the Italian government decided to increase the so-called Ferrobonus contribution for the period of 2025 to 2027. It is &#8220;a measure that aims to support the use of rail freight transport as a sustainable alternative to road transport alone&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, Italy introduced a rule that allows Port System Authorities to introduce incentives to support rail shunting in the ports, which is supposed to boost the competitiveness of the port system.<\/p>\n<h2>Uncertainty and mistrust<\/h2>\n<p>At the same time, according to Rizzi, there will still be interruptions in 2025 to carry out the works as planned for Italy&#8217;s recovery and resilience plan (PNRR). Energy costs will likely continue to grow, and the economic context remains unstable. \u201cRailway logistics companies operate in a market characterised by uncertainty and mistrust, aggravated by the cut in the locomotive and wagon incentive in the budget law&#8221;, Rizzi added. Approximately 70 million euros was cut from a budget to support locomotive purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past year has not brought major success to Italian rail freight. The first estimates are counting on a loss of around one million train-kilometres\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,345,47,15049],"tags":[12634],"class_list":["post-167778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-italy","category-rail-news","category-yearly-numbers","tag-railfreight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167779,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167778\/revisions\/167779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}