SARAJEVO, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- Railway services in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) have fully resumed following a four-month suspension caused by severe flooding, the national railway operator announced on Monday.
Flooding in early October heavily damaged railway infrastructure in the Jablanica area of central Bosnia, bringing operations to a halt. As of Monday, passenger train services between the capital Sarajevo and the southern border city of Capljina are back in operation. Freight transport to the port of Ploce in Croatia, a key economic hub in the Western Balkans, already resumed at the end of January.
The flood-related damages resulted in an estimated revenue loss of 22.5 million Bosnia-Herzegovina Convertible Marka (KM) (approximately 11.9 million U.S. dollars). The railway operator has applied for financial assistance from the EU Solidarity Fund to support repairs on the most severely affected sections between Konjic and Grabovica in central Bosnia. (1 KM = 0.53 U.S. dollar)
