ZAGREB: CONVENTION ON IMPROVEMENT OF RAILWAY TRANSPORT BETWEEN W. AND E. EUROPE HELD IN ZAGREB

ZAGREB, June 4 (Hina) - A two-day general convention of the Corridor 10 Interest Working Community (ARGE), the shortest railway corridor between western and eastern Europe, ended in Zagreb on Tuesday, the Croatian Railway reported. #L# The corridor runs from Salzburg via Ljubljana, Zagreb, Belgrade, Nis and Skopje to Salonika. The HZ hosted the convention which pooled around 20 senior representatives of the Croatian, Austrian, Slovene, Yugoslav, Bulgarian and Macedonian railway companies, as well as the South- East European Co-operation Initiative (SECI). HZ management board president Marijan Drempetic said that the railway section Savski Marof-Tovarnik (the Croatian section of the 10th pan-European railway corridor) was HZ's most modern railway in which the HZ would continue investing in order to adjust it to European standards. Improvements include livelier traffic, shorter border stops, and the re-introduction of the pre-war timetable, he said. Four projects aimed at improving the quality of traffic and its density along Corridor 10 were presented at the convention. (hina) rml sb