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First electrified train along 27 km of the Reggio Emilia - Ciano d’Enza section. The event scheduled for Sunday, January 23rd, will open the testing phase of the railway electrified by GCF and will mark, above all, the first, tangible step towards the “ecological transition”, one of the three axes on which Emilia Romagna Region founded its powerful Sustainable Plan of the railway network.
Announced last September, it is now official with the solemn signature of the contract. The Rail Route 10 project formally launches the second renewal lot of the main railway network of Kosovo. GCF, Rossi Group’s railway firm that has been working in Kosovo for 2 years, will have the task to rebuild the second section between Fushë Kosovë and Mitrovicë and extend it to the European perimeter.
A placement of over 91%, 17 editions so far, over 460 Master graduates absorbed in the top railway companies of the country.
The University Master of second level in Engineering and Infrastructures of Railway System returns also this year, with this “business card”.
With a proud performance, Rossi Group’s railway companies rank five positions higher and, despite the year was marked by the pandemic, were able to attain the 11th position in the 2021 classification proposed by “Il Sole 24 ore” for the 200 top national companies in the Construction sector.
Greeted by Frecciarossa’s hiss entering Campo di Marte, the new modern technological system for railway circulation was put into service in Florence Node, on Sunday November 28th. An excellent result for the project commissioned by RFI that saw involved, first hand, also GCF in the various supply, installation, testing and operating phases of the new devices.
7 trains in just 6 days. In Trento, at the railway workshop of Trentino Trasporti, GCF-Gefer’s intervention with “MobiTurn” mobile lathe allowed to provide turning to the rolling stock, on-site. A quick service, at 0 km, that significantly reduced costs and times.
Jump across the ocean for Rossi Group that concluded a few days ago, the acquisition of Platinum Track Service Inc., a high-profile railway firm with headquarters in Ontario, Canada. The acquisition and merger transaction, concluded through GCF Canada Railwork, allowed creating the new company “Platinum Track Services Inc. - a GCF Group Company” owned and managed by the Italian group.
Safety is achieved together. Firms and workers, contracting bodies and contractors. This is the common thread underlying the trials that RFI has proposed to railway firms for voluntary adhesion and that GCF has embodied. Scope: boost the workers’ awareness on safety and proper management of risks.
Three stars, the maximum score of the Legality Rating. It is the award assigned to GCF - Generale Costruzioni Ferroviarie by the Competition and Market Authority (Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato -AGCM). An award that is handed out to companies who embody legal and ethical behaviours as daily operational methods.
In new Aquitania, along railway line 655.000 that connects Bordeaux to Irun, on the border with the Basque country. Fifteen days ago, GCF – Transalp put Suite Rapide in operation that, in Gironde, is working on the sixth site of the year to restore almost 40 km of track.
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