Rail traffic through Jablanica is expected to resume at the end of next week.
Rail traffic was interrupted on October 4 when rainwater triggered a landslide in Komadinovo Vrelo in Jablanica, leaving a 200-meter-long track hanging in the air.
The work was completed, and the track was tested on Sunday, with Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Minister of Transport and Communications Edin Forto announcing that freight traffic would be allowed first, followed by passenger traffic.
The repair of the damage to the track, which has caused trains to be out of service on the Sarajevo – Mostar section for almost four months, was carried out by the Turkish company Cengiz Insaat.
The track from Ploče via Metković (Republic of Croatia) through the Bosnian cities of Čapljina, Mostar, Jablanica, Konjic to Sarajevo is part of the European Corridor 5c.
Daily transport in the first nine months of 2024 averaged 6,500 to 7,000 tons of goods, according to ŽFBiH data from October. It is estimated that at the time of the interruption of rail traffic, the Port of Ploče had about 400,000 tons of goods intended for the BiH market.
