Klek

About the crossing

Klek is the northern border crossing of the Neum corridor, on the Adriatic coastal road (route D8) between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. A stretch of about nine kilometres of road through Bosnian Neum separates it from its southern twin, the Zaton Doli crossing. The current facility opened on 28 April 2013, ahead of Croatia's EU accession, built to a high standard with ten lanes at each of the two crossings to speed up traffic flow. Both passenger cars and freight vehicles pass through Klek — customs checks on goods moving through the corridor are carried out here, as at Zaton Doli. Since Croatia joined the Schengen Area in January 2023, this is a full external Schengen border on the Croatian side. The opening of the Pelješac Bridge in July 2022 gave most transit traffic toward Dubrovnik a route that bypasses the Neum corridor entirely — the detour is roughly 30 kilometres longer but avoids two border checks within just nine kilometres of road. Traffic through Klek and Zaton Doli fell sharply afterwards, with measurements in the following weeks showing a drop of around 70 percent. Klek is still used by anyone actually stopping in Neum, or simply driving the old coastal road rather than crossing the bridge.