An agreement for on a 5 percent salary increase was signed by unions and management of the state-owned ferry operator Jadrolinija on Wednesday.

The agreement, signed aboard one of the company’s catamarans in the port of Rijeka, includes the company’s first salary raise in ten years, via a 5 percent increase in the value of salary points used to calculate salaries.

In 2017 Jadrolinija ferried some 11.8 million passengers and 2.9 million vehicles, including 200,000 passengers and 46,000 vehicles on its three international lines connecting coastal Croatia with Italian ports of Bari and Ancona.

The company operates 34 local lines along the Croatian coast of the Adriatic and has a total of 1,700 employees, some three quarters of which are sailors, operating more than 40 various types of ships and ferries.