Strisciuglio (Trenitalia): 74 new Frecciarossa trains by 2030 for two billion investments

Trenitalia, the passenger company of the FS (Ferrovie dello Stato) group, continues to invest heavily in the renewal of its high-speed fleet: 74 new Frecciarossa trains will arrive by 2030, representing an investment of around 2 billion. This was said by Trenitalia CEO Gianpiero Strisciuglio during an event organised at Milan's Stazione Centrale to present the new logo of the FS group's flagship train.

Strisciuglio explains: 'From now on there will be major investments on the Frecciarossa, the train that represents Italian excellence in the world. Seventy-four new Frecciarossa trains will arrive by 2030, for a two billion investment, destined to enrich our fleet, with a strong focus on service, innovation for the customer and also for our staff working on the train. We have already started in 2025, with four trains delivered in the last months of last year, this is the fifth to arrive'. Strisciuglio then emphasises the environmental aspects of the operation: 'The new Frecciarossa trains have a recyclability rate of 97.1 per cent and a material recovery rate of 98.2 per cent. The new-generation Frecciarossa are designed by Hitachi Rail and manufactured in the Italian plants of Pistoia and Naples.

Trenitalia's CEO then talks about France, where for some years now the Frecciarossa has been competing with Sncf's Tgv on some domestic routes (from Milan to Paris via Lyon and, from 15 June 2025, from Paris to Marseille) and Germany. Says Strisciuglio: 'We restarted last year with the connection between Milan and Paris (after a forced stop of 19 months due to the interruption of the Fréjus railway tunnel, ed.) Since last spring, we have carried almost half a million passengers on a service that is recognised as an excellence, and by 2026 we will have enriched this offer with the birth of the connection between Milan and Munich (Germany), where we will bring our Frecciarossa. Considering that we started up again in April 2025 with France,' continues Strisciuglio, 'our ambition is to continue with this trend and therefore exceed these numbers, also because we will have the possibility of making this connection all year round.

Meanwhile, the logo on the sides of the fast trains changes, with the Frecciarossa lettering becoming rounder and less stylised. The Italian flag remains underneath the writing, also proposed in a slightly different way from what has been seen so far, without the slant that somehow gave the idea of speed. The new logo will be progressively applied to the entire Frecciarossa fleet and to all Trenitalia spaces and supports.