ZAGREB, April 3 (Hina) - Croatia plans to buy five tilting train carriages, including two carriages for the Zagreb-Rijeka line, two for the Zagreb-Split line and one spare carriage, officials at the Croatian Ministry of Maritime
Affairs, Transport and Communications said on Tuesday. Croatia would enter this project together with Bosnia-Herzegovina with the aim of unifying means of transport and securing better commercial conditions for the purchase of such trains. According to a statement from the Ministry, representatives from Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Spanish company Talgo met in Zagreb today at the proposal of Croatia's Transport Minister Alojz Tusek to discuss the purchase of tilting trains. In line with its strategy of modernisation and restructuring, the Croatian Railways should buy such trains in 2002 and 2003. Minister Tusek and Croatian Railways director Marijan Dr
ZAGREB, April 3 (Hina) - Croatia plans to buy five tilting train
carriages, including two carriages for the Zagreb-Rijeka line, two
for the Zagreb-Split line and one spare carriage, officials at the
Croatian Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Transport and
Communications said on Tuesday.
Croatia would enter this project together with Bosnia-Herzegovina
with the aim of unifying means of transport and securing better
commercial conditions for the purchase of such trains.
According to a statement from the Ministry, representatives from
Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Spanish company Talgo met in
Zagreb today at the proposal of Croatia's Transport Minister Alojz
Tusek to discuss the purchase of tilting trains. In line with its
strategy of modernisation and restructuring, the Croatian Railways
should buy such trains in 2002 and 2003.
Minister Tusek and Croatian Railways director Marijan Drempetic
have been invited to attend a presentation of a feasibility study on
the introduction of tilting trains, to take place in Sarajevo on
April 26 this year. The presentation has been organised by the
Spanish government.
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