BELGRADE, Feb 9 (Hina) - Railways managing directors from Croatia, Slovenia, and Yugoslavia concluded in Belgrade on Friday additional effort and measures should be invested to increase the scope and quality of railway transport along
the tenth pan-European corridor from northern Austria to southern Greece. To achieve that goal it is necessary to agree on a uniform price and level of services and simplify visa requirements, Croatian Railways (HZ) said in a statement. All three sides agreed visa requirements with Yugoslavia posed a big hurdle to passenger transport. The Belgrade talks focused on revitalising the tenth corridor, whose Croatian route extends from Savski Marof via Zagreb and Vinkovci to Tovarnik. Croatia's northern Adriatic city of Rijeka showed a big interest in the normalisation of transport along the tenth corridor. Rijeka Harbour managing director Miran Cofek unveiled the possibilitie
BELGRADE, Feb 9 (Hina) - Railways managing directors from Croatia,
Slovenia, and Yugoslavia concluded in Belgrade on Friday
additional effort and measures should be invested to increase the
scope and quality of railway transport along the tenth pan-European
corridor from northern Austria to southern Greece.
To achieve that goal it is necessary to agree on a uniform price and
level of services and simplify visa requirements, Croatian
Railways (HZ) said in a statement. All three sides agreed visa
requirements with Yugoslavia posed a big hurdle to passenger
transport.
The Belgrade talks focused on revitalising the tenth corridor,
whose Croatian route extends from Savski Marof via Zagreb and
Vinkovci to Tovarnik.
Croatia's northern Adriatic city of Rijeka showed a big interest in
the normalisation of transport along the tenth corridor. Rijeka
Harbour managing director Miran Cofek unveiled the possibilities
of reception and shipment of goods in Croatia's biggest harbour.
Cofek and HZ managing director Marijan Drempetic pointed to the
advantages of combining railway transport and the harbour's
services.
This year more than 900 transit trains are expected across the
Croatian-Yugoslav border crossing of Tovarnik-Sid, while 32
international trains, including eight regular ones, are included
in the 2001/2002 timetable along the tenth corridor.
Yugoslav Railways director Svetolik Kostantinovic said all
measures had been taken to improve railway transport. Slovene
Railways counterpart Igor Zajec said the corridor was the best and
shortest connection the European Union had with "everything that is
south-east of Vienna and Prague."
Drempetic said HZ would invest effort to give freight forwarding
precedence over railways.
A set of measures to increase transport along the tenth corridor
will be prepared during this month, while the three railways heads
will next meet in Ljubljana in March.
The three also agreed to hold a joint presentation at an
international railway conference in Vienna in September.
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