Croatian railways plan new infrastructure renewal projects for next year

The Croatian Railways Infrastructure company is preparing additional infrastructure modernisation projects estimated to cost several hundreds of millions of Euros, for next year. The first two of three contracts regarding the performance and supervision of the projects has been signed with the consortium made up of Austrian company Siemens AG Österreich, Zagreb firm Elektrokem d.o.o. and Spanish company Tecnic y proyests SA.

The works are expected to start in the first half of 2011 and  will last through to the end of 2012, the daily Vecernji List writes. The company's CEO Branimir Jerneic disclosed the plans during the visit of the European Commissioner for Enlargement Stephan Fuele. Fuele visited Zagreb’s main railway station where a 12.6-million project financed by European Union pre-accession funds is underway.

He was accompanied by representatives from Croatian Railways Infrastructure, which is working on updating the safety-signaling equipment system at the station. Jerneic explained that the renewal of signaling on Zagreb's main railway station is one of the most complex technical operations, expected to lessen the impact of bottlenecks in long-distance traffic on the Pan-European Corridor X. This should decrease the travel time of passenger trains, benefiting some 90,000 people that use the railways on a daily basis.

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