Transport infrastructure

Image 1. Rijeka port container terminal

Croatian advantageous geographical position allows the development of transport infrastructure and transport as sectors that make major contribution to Croatian overall economics and social development.

Port of Rijeka, with whom Koprivnica has a strait railroad line to, has an extraordinary geographical position and excellent prerequisites for the transhipment of all kinds of freight (general, bulk, container, liqiud, ro-ro, live cattle etc.) and is an important transportation node. Except of port of Rijeka, Croatia has several ports and harbours: Omisalj, Ploce, Rijeka, Sibenik, Vukovar (on a river Danube).

Image 2. Railroad route from Koprivnica to Rijeka (part of Budapest - Rijeka rail road)

In last several years, great effort has been put in to building new roads. Substantial investment is still necessary in terms of both the existing and new infrastructure, with a special emphasis on better links between the coast and the inland. 

Railroad

Also, Croatian Railways implement railway modernisation project. as part of this project, Croatian Railways have purchased new tilting trains.

It should be noted that the Republic of Croatia should use its favourable geographical position also in air transport, because it is one of the Mediterranean countries that lie at the intersection of air routes to South, East, and Central Europe. The seven airports in the Republic of Croatia (Zagreb, Split, Dubrovnik, Zadar, Rijeka, Pula and Osijek) used for international traffic. There are also three landing facilities (Brac, Lošinj and Vrsar) used for the arrival and dispatch of smaller commercial aircraft.