Albania Starts $10 Mln Road Construction in October

27 August 2004

Albania will start the construction of a $10 million (8.2 million euro) road in its central region, in late October as part of efforts to upgrade its transport infrastructure, the government's spokesperson Aldrin Dalipi said.

Albania invests in transport infrastructure.

The 11.1-kilometre road between Vore and Fushe-Kruje, passing through the country's sole international airport Mother Teresa, near the capital, will be linked to Albania's key motorway linking Tirana and the country's largest northern town Shkoder.

The Tirana-Shkoder highway is expected to be completed in September with the construction of the road's final stretch between Lezhe and Shkoder. The 33.9-kilometres road worth 4.0 billion Albanian leks (32 million euro/$39.1 million) is almost half completed. By mid-September, the road's final stretch - the 19.4-kilometres northern road Ballder-Piraj-Vau e Dejes, estimated to cost some 2.65 billion leks, is to be constructed.

The 85-kilometres Tirana-Shkoder highway, which initially was 116 kilometres
long, is part of a north-south transport corridor crossing Albania.