Sustainable Croatian Railways in Europe

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The development objective of the Sustainable Croatian Railways in Europe Project for Croatia is to improve the operational efficiency and the financial sustainability of the public railway sector in Croatia. The project comprises four components. The first component, project coordination and sector policy support aim to assist the ministry of maritime affairs, transport, and infrastructure (MMATI) to enhance its institutional capacity as coordinator of the railway sector to improve governance and overall management of the sector. The second component, support to Croatian railways (HZ) passenger transport restructuring objective is to support HZ passenger transport (HZP) in improving its operational efficiency and financial situation in order to deliver better services in a financially sustainable way. It includes following sub-components: (i) retrenchment; and (ii) contribution to restructuring plan implementation. The third component, support to HZ cargo restructuring aim to support HZ cargo (HZC) in increasing its operational efficiency and financial situation in order to deliver better services in a financially sustainable way. The fourth component, support to HZ infrastructure (HZI) restructuring and enabling investment to increase the system efficiency objective is twofold: (i) to support HZI in improving its operational efficiency and financial sustainability through restructuring, and (ii) to contribute to restoring the physical infrastructure's condition including safety and improving its clients operating conditions. It will include the following sub-components: (i) retrenchment; (ii) railway safety crossings program; (iii) other railway safety investment; and (iv) emergency infrastructure investments to bring back some lines to acceptable operating standards and small capacity improvements.

FY17 - Transportation

World Bank Group

Project

Mass Transit, Rail, Seaport, Forest Products and Packaging, Warehouse, Government