ZAGREB, July 26, 2019 – The Ministry of the Maritime Affairs, Transport and Infrastructure on Thursday informed that an agreement had been reached with Slovenia’s ministry regarding freight road traffic at border crossings with Slovenia which will apply as of August 1.
The ministry said in a press release that after Slovenia’s ministry for infrastructure adopted a regulation on June 1 introducing restrictions on freight road traffic at certain border crossings with Slovenia, meetings were held with the Slovenian side to resolve the problem for hauliers.
Conclusions were reached at the ministerial and operational levels and they will enter into force as of August 1.
At the latest meeting held on Wednesday, it was decided to establish a joint task force that will work on further improving and advancing transport cooperation between Croatia and Slovenia. The task force will commence with its work at the end of August and one of the most important tasks will be to resolve transit corridors and other outstanding issues regarding border crossings and border cooperation.
One of the other topics discussed at the meeting was a recent decision by the Croatian government to launch proceedings for an agreement to be reached with the Slovenian government, which resulted from joint efforts by Croatia’s Transport Minister Oleg Butković and Slovenia’s Transport Minister Alenka Bratušek, on the construction of a bridge at the Kaštel-Dragona border crossing in Istria.
The total value of the bridge according to Croatian Roads’s estimates would be 5 million kuna, with Croatia securing half the funds and Slovenia would provide the other half.
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