Italo - NTV

Italy’s first private high speed rail operator, and the first operator in the world to use the new Alstom’s AGV train

Sector

Transportation

Country

Italy

Investment Year

2017

Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori (“NTV”) is a privately owned High Speed Trains operator, created by a group of Italian entrepreneurs following the European Union directive aimed at liberalizing the railway system.

NTV is the first and largest European private-sector high speed train operator, and the second largest player in Italy after government-owned Trenitalia. It is mostly known for its Italo trains.

Peninsula invested in the company by acquiring a significant minority stake in 2017, and afterwards reinvesting a portion of its stake alongisde G.I.P. in the 2018 transaction.