Soaring costs Subsidies double at state-owned Tirrenia
AS TRANSPORT ministry officials in Rome put the finishing touches to plans for the privatisation of state-owned ferry company Tirrenia, Italy’s Corte dei Conti released its latest audit of the company’s books, showing that subsidies jumped to €101.6m ($151.5m) last year from €46.3m in 2007, writes John McLaughlin .