RIJEKA-GDYNIA CARGO RAIL TRANSPORT FASTER FOR 10 HOURS

ZAGREB, Feb 2 (Hina) - Trans-European railway experts from Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Croatia, discussed in the last four days in Zagreb a pilot project for modernizing the railway Rijeka-Zagreb- Budapest-Bratislava-Warsaw-Gdansk-port of Gdynia. The meeting was sponsored by the UN Economic Committee for Europe. The project, initiated by Croatian Railways (HZ), would reduce cargo transport time from the current 25 to 15 hours while passenger transport would be faster by four hours, according to HZ director Bartol Ivanus. The pilot project would be implemented after all participating coutries made nessesary preparations. Ivanus added that with minimum investment passenger transport time could be cut by 11 hours. (hina) mm vr 021745 MET feb 95