DIRECTORS OF RAILWAYS FROM FORMER YU COUNTRIES ON COOPERATION

ZAGREB, Dec 7 (Hina) - The general directors of the Slovene, Croatian, Bosnian, Yugoslav and Macedonian railways met in Zagreb Friday to discuss increasing transport services. Also discussed at the meeting was the modernisation of railway lines and vehicles and securing a free flow along the 10th pan- European corridor (Salzburg-Ljubljana-Zagreb-Belgrade-Nis- Skopje-Veles-Salonika). Revitalising transit along the 10th pan-European corridor is important for all railway management boards from former Yugoslavia, Croatian Railways director Marijan Drempetic told a press conference. Before the war, Croatian Railways (HZ) transported around 14 million tonnes of cargo and five to seven million passengers, while in the first six months of this year, HZ transported only one million tonnes of cargo, Drempetic said. The meeting also aims at establishing a uniform commercial policy, uniform prices, and service marketing. Representatives of all railways said their transport services along the 10th corridor had significantly decreased in relation to pre-war years. They announced investments in the 10th pan-European corridor, in line with pan-European standards and agreed that investments should be harmonised. (hina) it sb