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Bosnia and Herzegovina has facilities forroad,rail andair transport. There are five international road routes and 20 state highways, with bus connections to many countries. Railways total just over 1,000 km with links toCroatia andSerbia. There are 25 airports, seven of them with paved runways. TheSava River is navigable, but its use is limited.
Bosnia & Herzegovina is well connected to other countries in Europe. The main bus station ofSarajevo has its own website.[1] The main provider of international bus connection in Bosnia & Herzegovina is Eurolines.[2] There are routes to Croatia, Germany, Austria, France, Netherlands, Montenegro, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden and Serbia. Despite Bosnia & Herzegovina's geographical closeness to Serbia, there is only one bus a day, which takes more than 8 hours due to the lack of proper roads.[3]
Railway operators in Bosnia and Herzegovina are successors of theYugoslav Railways within the country boundaries following independence from in March 1992. The two companies operating services (in their respective divisions following theDayton Agreement) are:
ŽFBH and ŽRS have been members ofInternational Union of Railways (UIC) since 1992 and 1998, respectively.
Sava River (northern border) open to shipping but use is limited (2008)
Gradiška,Brod,Šamac, andBrčko (all inland waterway ports on the Sava none of which are fully operational),Orašje, Bosnia
none (1999 est.)
Air transport begin in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the period of theKingdom of Yugoslavia when the flag-carrierAeroput inaugurated a regular flight linking the national capitalBelgrade withPodgorica in 1930, with a stop in Sarajevo. A year later Aeroput inaugurated another regular flight starting in Belgrade and then stopping in Sarajevo and continuing towardsSplit,Sušak andZagreb. By mid-1930s Aeroput inaugurated two routes linking Belgrade and Zagreb withDubrovnik through Sarajevo, and, in 1938, it inaugurated an international route linking Dubrovnik, which was becoming a major holiday destination, through Sarajevo, to Zagreb,Vienna,Brno andPrague.[4]
25 (2008)
total:7
2,438 to 3,047 m:4
1,524 to 2,437 m:1
under 914 m:2 (2008)
total:18
1,524 to 2,437 m:1
914 to 1,523 m:7
under 914 m:10 (2008)
6 (2013)
This article incorporatespublic domain material fromThe World Factbook.CIA.
