Mercitalia (also known as Mercitalia Rail) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the
Italian state railway (FSI) system that operates freight transport and logistics services both within Italy and across Europe.
Mercitalia was founded in January 2016, when the freight operations of
Trenitalia
Trenitalia is the primary train operator in Italy. A subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, itself owned by the Italian government, the company was established in 2000 following a European Union directive on the deregulation of rail transp ...
were merged with supporting services into the Mercitalia brand, including Rail, Logistics, and Terminals. The following month, FSI announced further details of the company, which in addition to the Mercitalia branded services controls European rail operator TX Logistik, intermodal operator Cemat, Terminal AlpTransit, and TLF.
FSI officials said that Mercitalia would expand state-owned freight operations from the primarily domestic Trenitalia Cargo to cross-border European service, with the intent of doubling freight revenue within ten years and more than tripling rail's share of the Italian freight market within fifteen.
FSI planned to invest about
€
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1.5 billion into Mercitalia in its first decade of operation, primarily in locomotives and rolling stock for Mercitalia Rail.
As part of the capital expenditures, Mercitalia in November 2017 ordered up to 125 Bombardier
TRAXX
Alstom Traxx (sold as Bombardier TRAXX before 2021) is a modular product platform of mainline diesel-electric and electric locomotives produced originally by Bombardier Transportation and later Alstom, which was built in both freight and passen ...
electric locomotives at a cost of €400 million, and 50 intermodal and 200 steel freight cars, from
Tatravagonka Poprad and
Greenbrier respectively, worth €27 million.
The new locomotives entered service for both Mercitalia Rail and TX Logistik and it commenced on November 7, 2018.
Fleet
Electrical locomotives:
*
E.655
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E.656
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E.632
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E.633
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E.652
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E.405
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E.412
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E.483
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E.193
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E.494
Diesel locomotives:
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D.345
*
D.445
Shunting locomotives:
*
245
*
D.145
*
214
References
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Logistics companies of Italy
Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane
Railway companies established in 2017
Railway companies of Italy