Slovenia’s position at the heart of Europe, excellent infrastructure and cost-effective support functions suit big and small international companies plotting the course to the markets of East and Southeast Europe.

The transport system consists of nearly 27,000 km of modern roads, 1,228 km of railway lines, three airports for international passenger and freight transport, an international cargo port and several smaller ports. All kinds of transport of passengers and cargo enjoyed growth in 2008, while the distance travelled by passengers on public roads remained roughly the same.

Slovenia’s marinas and the Port of Koper serve the businesses in the land-locked Central European countries to send and receive goods by sea and as a starting point for family cruises or regattas. The deep-water port boast a broad line-up of facilities for the thriving container operations, auto and bulk business. It provides the shortest link for transporters to the Mediterranean, and through the Suez Canal to the Middle and the Far East. Cargo sent by train to the distribution centre in the Port of Koper travels ten days less than cargo sent by sea from North European ports. The port operator is planning a range of new facilities, as well as distribution and logistics functions to strengthen its status of an entry/exit port for the European internal market.

Slovenia’s national air carrier Adria Airways has a modern fleet that carries well over one million passengers annually aboard scheduled flights to 25 European cities. Ljubljana boasts a recently modernised airport and caters to over 1.7 million passengers, and over 17,000 tonnes of goods a year.

Over 16.6 million passengers used the Slovenian railroad service and travelled a 3% higher overall distance. 1.6 million passengers passed through Slovenian airports. International traffic increased by slightly over 8% year-on-year and the total distance travelled increased by almost 14%. Cargo traffic at the deep-sea Port of Koper rose by 4% to over 16,500 tonnes. Slovenian haulers transported over 91 million tonnes of goods, a 2% increase in comparison with 2007 and performed over 16,261 million tonne kilometres, an increase of 18%. Railway transport of goods fell by 2% over 2007, with 17 million tonnes of goods transported and the total distance travelled at 3,520 million tonne kilometres. The share of road haulage in total cargo transported thus rose to 82% and the number of registered cars in Slovenia grew by 30,000 to over 1,045,000 cars in 2008 or an average of 514 cars per 1,000 inhabitants (SORS).

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