TRANSPORT MINISTER ON DEVELOPMENT OF PANEUROPEAN CORRIDOR X

ZAGREB, March 12 (Hina) - An agreement memorandum on the development of the Paneuropean Corridor X, whose principal route crosses Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Yugoslavia, Macedonia, and Greece, will be signed in Salonika on March 15th. The corridor extends from Salzburg, crossing Ljubljana, Zagreb, Belgrade, and Skopje, to Salonika, and has four branches, Graz- Maribor-Zagreb, Budapest-Belgrade, Nis-Sofia, and Veles- Florina. The memorandum will be signed by the transport ministers of Croatia, Austria, Slovenia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Greece, Croatia's Transport Minister Alojz Tusek told reporters in Zagreb on Monday. He said the memorandum covers all sorts of transport - road, rail, air, and river transport, as well as aspects referring to construction, infrastructure maintenance, rates, access, and services. The managing director of Croatian Railways (HZ), Marijan Drempetic, pointed to the significance the tenth corridor had for HZ's business prior to the pre-war year 1990, when it accounted for 60 percent of the company's earnings, as against the current 20 percent. Drempetic said an agreement was signed in Belgrade earlier this month on the establishment of a working community for the tenth corridor, and a letter of intent on the introduction of a quality system along the corridor in accordance with ISO9001 quality norms. The agreement was signed by all countries crossed by the corridor. (hina) ha