THE positive trend for rail freight carriers in Croatia continued in the first quarter of 2018, resulting in an increase in the volume of goods carried and tonne-km.
THE number of passengers transported by rail in Bosnia during the first quarter of 2018 increased by 22.8% to 113,000, compared with 92,000 during the same quarter in 2017, according to data from Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Agency for Statistics.
DURO Daković Special Vehicles, Croatia, has signed two contracts for the delivery of wagons with companies Swietelsky Baugesellschaft, Austria, and Eurailpool.
RAIL freight operator Serbia Cargo has awarded Siemens Austria a €32m contract to supply eight multi-system Vectron locomotives.
BOSNIA and Herzegovina Federal Railways (ŽFBiH) has announced it will reinstate passenger services between Sarajevo and Bihać on July 1 following the completion of a Marka 2.26m ($US 1.35m) project to renew overhead electrification equipment on the 47km Blatno - Bihać section of the Unska Line.
SLOVENIA’s National Assembly has adopted an act amending and supplementing the country’s Railway Transport Act, which will open the domestic passenger rail market to competition.
CROATIAN Railways (HŽ) passenger subsidiary HŽ Putnički Prijevoz (HŽPP) has ordered four class 7023 DMUs from Končar – Električna Vozila, Croatia.
FRENCH wagon leasing company Atir Rail has awarded Duro Daković Specijalna Vozila, a susbsidiary of Croatian rolling stock manufacturer Duro Daković, a €5.2m contract to supply a batch of Shimms TTU wagons.
THE Serbian and Croatian governments signed a memorandum of cooperation in Belgrade on March 9 to jointly reconstruct the 412km Belgrade - Zagreb main line.
BOSNIA and Herzegovina Federal Railways (ŽFBiH), one of two companies operating train services in the Balkan country, has posted its strongest financial results for 25 years.