CROATIA TO LEASE THREE TRAIN ENGINES FROM POLAND

ZAGREB, March 10 (Hina) - Croatia is to lease three electric engines from Poland for a period of eleven months to meet its rail transport requirements. The two countries today signed an agreement in Zagreb which Croatian Railways deputy director Stjepan Bozicevic described as the beginning of cooperation with Polish Railways. Bozicevic said that the three engines would operate on a railway linking Zagreb to the northern Adriatic port city of Rijeka where the volume of traffic was returning to pre-war levels. The signing ceremony was also attended by the Polish ambassador to Croatia, Wieslaw Walkiewicz, who pointed out the importance of transport cooperation between Poland and Croatia. This year Poland is to take over the presidency of the Central European initiative and Walkiewicz said that its main objective would be to establish a traffic link between Gdansk, Budapest, Zagreb and Rijeka. Walkiewicz said that Rijeka could fully substitute the expensive Italian port of Triest. (hina) mm vm 101340 MET mar 95