Editorial

摘要

Dear readers, Over the past months the Italian Peninsula has created fat political headlines - which sometimes drowned out the good news concerning economic progress. Railfreight operations, for example, is one of the foci of investment for the state-owned rail enterprise Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, which has launched an ambitious programme of renewal. Some of its infrastructure projects, including completing the Genoa/Terzo Valico intersection, the Genoa-Ventimiglia stretch and increasing capacities on the Venice-Trieste route, will directly benefit railfreight activities. European Union financial support provides an additional dynamic; The continental body is aiming to complete its TEN-T pan-European transport corridors.