Milan – After the Italian Post, the state returns to market her jewelry to make cash and start the privatization of Railways. This was announced by the Minister of Transport, Graziano Delrio, following the Council of Ministers which met in the morning: “This starts the process that takes into account the complexity of the management of Fs and the need to increase the obligations of public service” Delrio said. There are still major problems to Dissolve, primarily on the scope of activities that will be put on the market. The government is considering whether to implement the unbundling of the group, which is currently under the umbrella of RFI within the group Ferrovie dello Stato: “We will consider – said the minister – the independence of the network operator.” Other warranty items are been assured: “In the process of partial privatization of Fs will remain the shareholder widespread attention and participation of employees of the State Railways group, that group will also produce excellent results this year” said Delrio news conference at Palazzo Chigi. Assurances also on maintaining majority public by the Treasury: “The alienation of Railways will not go beyond 40%. It ‘a boot path that keeps present some issues: the railway infrastructure will remain public, will have to be guaranteed the ‘access to all equally. ” Again must be “guaranteed the obligations of public service and public utility”. For the examination of full modalities of sale must still wait for “the coming weeks”, concluded Delrio: “For now we are satisfied” of a start in the direction to provide greater efficiency “. The news It does not pass without arousing reactions from politics and business. For Stefano Fassina Italian Left is a “further dramatic disinvestment and deterioration for transport services for commuters, already hard hit by the continuing cuts in transfers from the state budget to the regions and long impoverished by the concentration of investments the company high-speed railway. “For the chief economist of the Democratic Party, Felipe Taddei instead” is an important step towards the modernization of the sector and the opening of the market in our country ” . But what does it mean – financially speaking – the privatization of Fs? The big budget numbers are easy to enumerate: in 2014, the group Fs has made nearly 8.4 billion in operating revenues, which are transformed into 303 million net profit after the various cost items. In the first half of 2015, revenues reached just under EUR 4.2 billion and profit rose by 2.5% over the same period last year, reaching 292 million Euros. The sales process will cross a new important hub parossimo Thursday, when the boards of Fs may ricevre the resignation of President Marcello Messori and the ad Michele Mario Elia, who would split right on the most important issue, namely privatization. If it will, the Treasury could simply replace them keeping the current board of directors. If neither of the two leaders intend to step aside, it could be the other directors (at least five out of nine) to resign to bring down the entire board of directors and allow the Treasury to spare, that Palazzo Chigi would view necessary to accelerate the privatization front.
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