INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION INCREASES BY 6.8 PER CENT IN 1997

( Editorial: --> 5024 ) ZAGREB, Jan 16 (Hina) - Industrial production in Croatia in 1997 increased by 6.8 per cent in relation to the year before. Production in the manufacturing industry increased by 3.9 per cent and electrical energy, water and gas supply by 24.2 per cent, while mining registered a 0.3 per cent decrease. The production of energy increased by 17 per cent, production of capital products by 6.6 per cent, durable products by 31.1 per cent and non-durable products by 11.3 percent. Comparing industrial production in the October-December 1997 period with the July-September period of the same year, total industrial production increased by 3.2 per cent. Had such an increase been realised throughout the whole year, the increase of industrial production in relation with industrial production in 1996 would have been 13.0 per cent. (hina) lm mm 161801 MET jan 98