The meeting brought together about a hundred representatives of Hungarian and Croatian companies, including MOL, OTP Banka, Biopetrol, Astra, INA, Kras, Zagreb Trade Fair, etc.
Croatian-Hungarian relations are excellent, among business people there's a sense of openness to one another, and our governments have a done a lot to achieve this, Gyurcsany said.
With one billion US dollars invested, Hungary is the seventh largest investor in Croatia and plans to establish closer relations with Croatia through construction of infrastructure, he added.
Speaking of road construction in Hungary, Gyurcsany said that people would soon be able to travel by motorway all the way from the border with Romania and Ukraine to the Adriatic coast. He added that the construction of the Hungarian section of a railway from Gdansk, Poland, to the Croatian seaport of Ploce was also under way and that along with Rijeka, Ploce would become a port for Hungarian exports and imports.
In addition to transport projects, Sanader mentioned plans to build a liquefied gas terminal on the northern island of Krk or at Plomin in Istria, in which Hungary would have a stake through its oil company MOL. The exact location would be decided by a special task force.