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According to the National Classification of Industrial Branches,
transfort includes the following services of transfort, storage
and communication:
- carrying out regular and special transport of people and goods,
by train, road, water, air and pipelines
- auxiliary activities on terminals, or parking places, reloading,
storing, etc.
- postal services and telocommunications
- renting vehicles and equipment with driver or handler.
Due to Croatia's favourable geographic and transport position,
the transport infrastucture and activities are very important factors
of the country's economic and social development. The present condition
of transport in Croatia is not satisfactory, especially the condition
of harbours, coastal and inland navigation, and railways. The share
of combined transport in the overall transport is very small. This
type of transport is the most modern one, it is environment friendly,
and therefore should be developed as soon as possible (using government
incentive) in order to get Croatia included into European transport
network.
The current situation of transport could be partially excused if
we take into consideration the objective cirsumstances the country
has fin itself during the past decade, its heritage from the past
and the lack of development strategy. Surplus of transport capacities
can be noted, that is, a disproportion between the transport capacities
and transport needs, especially when it comes to road transport.
Road and railway infrastructure are not equally developed in all
the parts of Croatia. There is need of considerable investments
both into the existing infrastructure and the new one, as well as
in the connection of the coastal and inland parts of Croatia. The
share of transport in GDP is eight per cent and in the overall number
of employees seven per cent.
INFRASTRUCTURE
Roads: Total of 28009 km (expressways, regional and local roads).
382 km of the total length are motorways and 150 are fast roads.
Railways: 2726 km of railway lines
Pipelines: 601 km of oil lines and 1769 km of gas lines
Data from 1999, source - Croatian Bureau of Statistics, Statistical
Yearbook 2000
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