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Moving around in Croatia - transportation

The network of highways in Croatia is well-developed with its total length spanning more than 29 thousand kilometers. There are even modern expressways; their length being a little over 850 thousand kilometers. Traveling within Croatia by car, be it personal or rented, is therefore quite comfortable. The streets in large cities are although quite narrow and very meandering in the mountainous regions. In settlements, the maximum permitted speed for motor vehicles is not more than 50 kilometers per hour. You can drive up to 90 kilometers per hour on the outskirts and up to 130 kilometers per hour on the highways. Taxis are also popular in the cities of Croatia. For parking, you have to pay about two and a half dollars. A ride on a taxi costs one dollar per kilometer. It is worth noting that in Croatia, there are a lot of cycling routes and motorists are very respectful towards riders. … Open

Economy roadmap of Croatia

Privatization, increasing the number of export products, establishing new trade relations, automating the process and setting new standards is the key to the annual development of the industrial sector in Croatia. It is the Industrial Products that make up about 95% of the total number of Exported Goods. The main directions in the Republic as in the past are Mechanical Engineering and High-Quality Shipbuilding, Chemical, Textile and Woodworking Industries. Also widely used were the Electrical, Pharmaceutical and Oil refining Industry. It should be noted that in Croatia, large-scale work is underway to extract Bauxite, Brown Coal and Copper. The most famous Companies with a world-wide brand name were “Ericsson Nikola Tesla” and “Koncar”, the Pharmaceutical Enterprise “Pliva”, Furniture Factories “Tvin” and “Podravka”, and “Kras”, which belong to the food industry. … Open