Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato

Reorganisation of the railway sector 

The Algerian Ministry of Transport has assigned Italferr, which is the leader in a group of major international companies, with planning the reorganisation of the country’s entire railway sector.

The new assignment includes in particular:
• the preparation of a SNTF (National Company for Rail Transport) reorganisation plan;
• the definition of the national regulatory framework;
• the review of the railway safety reference documents;
• the analysis of the railway safety systems maintenance requirements.

The assignment, which arrives just over a year after the starting of the technical assistance mission at ANESRIF, the Algerian Agency of Studies and the Follow-up of the Realisation of the Railway Investments (see below), allows defining the indispensable tools for the infrastructures development, in compliance with the European regulatory standards.

Work started in June 2009 and will end in December 2010.



Developing the Algerian railway network 

Italferr provides technical assistance to ANESRIF-Agence Nationale d’Études et de Suivi de la réalisation des Investissements Ferroviaires (Algerian Government Agency for Running and Monitoring Railway Investments) in designing new lines, managing calls for tender and directing works for the completion of the infrastructure investment programme -in Algeria: a 10-thousand-million-Dollar development programme.

The services to ensure over the 5 -year-span of planned activity have a value of approximately 16 million Euros and involve the design of new railway lines, managing the calls for tender and construction supervision.
These services aim to complement an ambitious infrastructure investment programme, from which the Algerian railways will come out radically changed thanks to the modernisation of the East-West line, to the restoration of the Algiers hub, to the construction of the new Hauts Plateaux lines and the southbound key central access routes.

Italferr’s activity also involves training the Agency’s staff both in Algeria and in Italy and further collaboration and dialogue between staff of the two companies on opposite shores of the Mediterranean.

Work started in 2008 and will end in the first quarter of 2013.