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At the conference, the last, however not less interesting foreign speaker,Mr. Jörg Blass, presented the Trenitalia company.Within freight transport division, it has 10 120 employees and itsrolling stock consists of 1200 locomotives and 40 000 freightwagons, out of which 12 500 are specialised for intermodal transport.It operates 850 trains per day, with an average punctuality of 82% andaverage load-factor of 457 tons. Trenitalia´s traffic performance isabout 24 billion net ton-kilometers and its revenues reach 769 millionEUR. The volume of transported goods predicted for the year 2008 is74 million tons, from which international traffic prevails, with its 54 %share. The strongest goods flows within import and export are directedto/from Germany, Austria and France.Bilateral traffic between Italy and Slovakia amounts to 400 000 tons.For Trenitalia, the East European market is of a strategic interest. Theyhave been reinforcing their services on the 5th European corridorconnecting South West Europe (France and Spain) with central andEastern Europe.The level of liberalisation differs within individual European countries.The most liberalised transport markets are those on the north-southaxis, which also includes Italy, with already 12 active railway undertakings,among which there are newcomers as well as daughtercompanies of European incumbents.Trenitalia also acts as an umbrella company for an integrated group ofcompanies active in diverse areas of Central and Eastern Europe. Pol-Rail manages several block trains between Italy and Poland, Ukraineand Romania and offers a geographically wide-spread network ofterminals serving major economic centres. The East Rail companyis specialised on offering comprehensive logistic solutions from andtowards East (Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary and former Soviet countries)and South-east (Serbia, Romania and Bulgary) and operates a transhipmentcenter at the Hungary-Ukrainian borders in Zahony. Anotherdaughter company, TX Logistik, provides traction and logistic servicesin Belgium, Denmark and Hungary and has confident plans to expendto Sweden, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Austria and Italy.To Italy, as a maritime country, the ports play a significant role. Theport of Trieste disposes of good railway network and it is supposed tobecome the access gate towards the Central-Eastern European andformer Soviet regions. In the matter of another large port, the port ofGenova and its operations, the Ferrovie dello Stato concern developeda partnership with two world leaders in shipping and port terminalsmanagement – Cosco and Port of Singapore Authority. This shouldenable rail penetration into the port and rise of the rail share to about50% of total amount of moved goods, as well as increase the share ofinternational rail transport share by means of the development of thefreight transit capacity.Jana ŠINGLIAROVÁMarketing SectionStupeň liberalizácie:Degree of liberalisationVysokýHighStrednýMediumNízkyLowJörg BlassJörg-Wolfgang Blass studiedPolitical Economy at Universityof Tübingen. In 1996, he startedworking as an assistant tothe Managing Director of thefederal association of housingconstructors in Germany for theBFW company. Afterwards, he didMaster in planning and managementof logistic services at theISFORT – Institute in Rome. Hisprofessional career in Trenitaliastarted in 1999 as a JuniorAccount Manager in Internationalsales department. Later on hechanged for a Senior Analyst atEuropean Business Development.Since 2008, he has worked asa Commercial Responsible forinternational conventional trafficon the north/south axis’. He is anative German, born December 9,1967 in Frankfurt/M.TrenitaliaThe Trenitalia company is thebiggest rail transport operatorin Italy. It makes a part of thecompany Ferrovie dello Stato. Itwas estahlished in June 2000after the spin-off of the FS Group‘srail transport business. It has aPassanger division and a Freightdivision. Within freight transport,it employs over 10 000 emploees.Other companies incorporatedunder Ferrovie dello Stato areRFI (infrastructure manager),Italferr (railway engineering),Grandi Stazioni (main stationsreal estate management), CentoStazioni (medium stations realestate management) and someother minor companies.12/13