Consulting and consolidating with the relevant international stakeholders on all activities with regard to European Institutions with special focus on the European Rail Freight Corridors (RFCs)Act as spokesperson for the railway undertaking advisory groups of railfreight corridors ScanMed and Atlantic

Management of relationships with institutions (European commission, Italian government, regulatory bodies, railnetwork management bodies and companies)Management of the company’s business associationsScreening, analysis and discussion of the regulatory provisionsManagement of contractual and juridical aspects of railnetwork accessManagement of public subsidies for railfreight transports

Main activity areas:Business DevelopmentStrategical development plansEconomical and technical feasibility analysisService Design and implementationProcurementResource planning, long term, mid term, budgetting phaseResource deployment-Spotlights:Realisation of the merged functions of conception and implementation of railway transports.Activation of various complex transport schemes in cooperation with the DB Schenker Rail Group.Introduction of a non-state-owned single wagon rail network in Italy in competition with the incumbent railway undertaking.Contribution to the acquisition of stakes of NORDCARGO by DB Schenker Rail.Realisation of the first non-state-owned international long distance passenger service for the sister company TreNord with focus on international timetable harmonization and contractual agreements with cooperating companies and rail infrastructure manager.

Realisation of an international sales-procurement team based on mutual understanding of processes.Introduction of international people exchange program.

Spotlights:Setup of the basis of cost calculation and price policy. Setup of internal process coordination between Sales and Production.

Spotlights:Introduction of the principles of railway network access according to recently implemented EU-regulations on railway transport liberalisation and of international timetable planning and production harmonization in an undertaking operating in the new market of railway liberalisation.

First analysis for the development of Deutsche Bahn Group’s operations in Italy.Realisation of the transport of waste from Naples area for disposal in Germany.

Setup of a quality railway link between Italy and former USSR-states including steering of a transloading facility in Ukraine and procurement agreements with Russian State Railways.

Articles:C.Riccardi, M.Fontanesi, A.Galassi, A.Penso, E.Sindoni: Ponderomotive effects in lower hybrid regime"Congr. naz. fisica della materia", Brescia 1994C.Riccardi, M.Fontanesi, A.Penso, E.Sindoni: Ponderomotive effects in lower hybrid regimeProc. "21st EPS conference on controlled fusion and plasma physics" Montpellier 1994M.Fontanesi, C.Riccardi, A.Galassi, E.Sindoni, E.Agostini, P.Cantu, A.Penso: Invited lecture: Experimental analysis on propagation of Ion Bernstein waves excited indirectly through mode conversionBullettin Italian Physical SocietyProc. "LXXIX congr. naz. Società Italiana Fisica", Lecce 1994C.Riccardi, M.Fontanesi, E.Agostini, A.Penso:Non-linear effects in coupling of electrostatic wavesProc. "22nd EPS conference on controlled fusion and plasma physics", Bournemouth 1995C.Riccardi, A.Penso, D.Xuantong, M.Fontanesi: Non-linear effects produced by electrostatic waves in magnetized plasmaProc. "Congr. naz. fisica della materia", Napoli 1995C.Riccardi, A.Penso, D.Xuantong, M.Fontanesi: Non-linear effects produced by electrostatic waves in magnetized plasmaProc. "Human Capital and Mobility Network: General conference on Nonlinear phenomena in microphysics of collisionless plasmas - Application to space and laboratory plasmas", Hyères 1995C.Riccardi, M.Fontanesi, A.Penso:Ponderomotive effects in ion cyclotron frequency rangeProc. "ICPIG XXII International conference on phenomena in Ionized Gases", Hoboken NJ 1995C.Riccardi, A.Penso, D.Xuantong, M.Fontanesi: Non-linear effects produced by electrostatic waves in magnetized plasmaJournal de Physique, sept 1995C.Riccardi, M.Fontanesi, A.Penso:Observation of ponderomotive and other non-linear effects produced by electrostatic waves in magnetized low-density plasmaPhysics Letters A 208 1995C.Riccardi, M.Fontanesi, A.Penso, D.Xuantong: Non-linear effects produced by electrostatic waves in a low density plasma