Rail traffic through Jablanica, on the Sarajevo-Mostar-Ploce line, is expected to resume at the end of next week, months after the infrastructure was destroyed in devastating floods and landslides.

The rail traffic was disrupted on October 4th when rainwater triggered a landslide at the Komadinov Vrelo location in Jablanica, leaving a 200-meter-long track hanging in the air.

The work has been completed and the railway was tested on Sunday, with the Minister of Transport and Communications of Bosnia and Herzegovina Edin Forto announcing that freight traffic will be allowed first, followed by passenger traffic.

The repair of the damage to the railway, which has caused trains to be out of service on the Sarajevo-Mostar and further to Ploce (Croatia) section for almost four months, was carried out by the Turkish company Cengiz Insaat.

Railway from Ploce via Metkovic (Croatia) through Bosnia and Herzegovina and the cities of Capljina, Mostar, Jablanica, Konjic to Sarajevo is a 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 the Federation Railways company's data from October. It is estimated that at the time of the interruption of rail traffic, the Port of Ploce had about 400,000 tons of goods intended for the Bosnian market.