A series of major investment projects are expected to be materialized soon in the coastal city of Durres, creating at the same time a significant number of new jobs.
The investments drive includes the major project designed to transform the city into a tourist port, one of the largest facility of its kind in the Mediterranean. Addressing a meeting in Durres, Prime Minister Edi Rama said that the investment project worth over two billion euros will be constructed by one of the world’s biggest real estate development and tourism companies. “The project will kick off soon, as the procedures have completed, the masterplan has been approved and the company has already tabled for the design of the project’s first phase and it will be approved in a matter of days. In the meantime, this remarkably huge investment will also create many new jobs as soon as its implementation commences,” PM Rama said.
The government head also underlined that the space of the maritime trade and transport will be transformed with the construction of a new commercial seaport once the existing port is removed from the city’s centre and be relocated in order to avoid its effects to the environment, threat to the population’s health because of the goods and cargo handling activities right at the heart of the city and build instead a brand new seaport in the Porto Romano area, designed to meet completely different standards, up the best European standards.”
Highlighting the two main investments, the Premier noted these are not the only projects due to be implemented in the coastal city. Another major project, with the international tender for its construction already launched, is the project on construction of the second photovoltaic park after construction of the first photovoltaic park in the Karavasta area, the largest in the region, has commenced.
As for the post-earthquake reconstruction programme, already in full swing in Durres and every other area worst hit by the devastating earthquake on November 26, 2019, the Premier said that work has kicked off to construct the residential complex in Spitalle area, a new reality designed to provide quality housing for all quake-affected families and not only. “A new residential neighbourhood will be constructed in the Spitalle area under the reconstruction programme and the project is funded by the Crown Prince of the United Arab Emirates, in yet another new reality that will provide quality housing and living spaces for all the quake-affected families and more than that,” PM Rama said, going on to talk about the industrial park project, where a considerable part of manufacturing and processing activities will be relocated and will create thousands of new jobs for the local residents. “The industrial park project, already part of this process as a project heading towards its finalization, not as an electoral pledge made over the past 30 years, where a considerable part of processing and manufacturing activities will be relocated, definitely creating at the same time fresh employment opportunities for thousands of people. The eco-park, set to open its doors to the public in the coming weeks right where the biggest gangrene in Albania used to be located few years ago, the Porto Romano landfill, which made the headlines and the news reports on the European leading TV channels as a pollution volcano right at the heart of the Mediterranean, and undoubtedly the continuation of the work to rehabilitate entire infrastructure serving Durres communities, from Kruja to whole area that is under administration of Shijak municipality,” PM Rama said as he listed a series of transformation projects in the coastal city of Durres.
