PHOTOS: Croatian airports start use of eGates and EES kiosks

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Croatia’s three busiest airports – Zagreb, Cut up and Dubrovnik – launched Automated Border Management (ABC) gates this month, enabling self-service passport checks to hurry up the method of getting into and leaving the nation. These gates permit eligible residents and residents from the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland to scan their biometric passport or ID, have their face routinely verified by a digital camera and go via. Every airport has a number of gates for each arrivals and departures, serving to scale back queues and enhance passenger circulate. Alongside them, airports have additionally put in new Entry/Exit System (EES) machines, which register travellers from non-EU international locations by recording their passport particulars, fingerprints and facial picture, after which they’ll proceed to passport management cubicles, the place the identical course of might be accomplished if it has not been achieved on the pre-registration kiosks. This registration is usually required solely as soon as, that means that passengers who’ve entered and left any EU state on or after April 10 usually don’t have to repeat the process on subsequent journeys.