The air-conditioned and video-monitored 75-metre-long train with 212 seats and standing space for 220 passengers will mainly operate between Zagreb and Vinkovci and Zagreb and Sisak. The price of this train with a maximum speed of 160 kilometres per hour and up to 8 doors on each side for rapid passenger access is slightly below five million euros.
During the presentation of the train called Low-floor Electric Multiple Unit, PM Kosor said that despite the crisis the government had tried to ensure as much funding as possible for investments in the railway infrastructure which she described as one of pillars of the economy.
This year the Croatian Railways (HZ) company is planning to invest HRK 1.5 billion and an additional two billion kuna in 2012. Investments will rise to HRK 2.2 billion in 2013, and Kosor said that the investments could even be higher because of Croatia's prospective admission to the European Union.
The HZ Holding management board's chairman Zlatko Rogozar said that today's inauguration of the low-floor regional train was the answer of this company to the crisis.
Rogozar announced the conclusion of contracts for seven electric trains in the near future. By 2015 a total of 41 trains of this type will have been driving on railroads throughout Croatia.
Darinko Bago, the chairman of the management board of the Koncar Group, specialised in power generation, distribution and transmission of electrical energy, industry and electric traction, said that the train production was very important for Koncar and the Gredelj rolling stock manufacturer. Bago said that the share of domestic companies' participation in the production of Low-floor Electric Multiple Unit was between 65 and 70 percent and that this share could rise to 75 percent in the serial production.