Albania, goods transit increases with Kosovo

Transit exports from Kosovo totals 11% of the volume of processed goods at the port of Durres in January-October 2017, while imports 10%.

From the Statistics Sector to APD, it is taught that figures do not include the volumes of transit goods from/direct Kosovo (with trucks or trainers) from the Durres lines ferry. -Bar and Durres. - Anacona-Trieste of return.

Statistics Sector Sources suggest that in the January-October period of this year alone at the General Goods Terminal, known as Western Terminal, 53.888 tonnes of goods have been processed, which mainly belong to transit imports towards Kosovo from the port of Durres. The goods being ordered mostly by import by ships in Kosovo are melamine, glass, iron, cement, etc.

Meanwhile, 65,292 more tonnes have been processed at the Eastern Terminal. Of the same sources, it is learned that in the first 10 months of this year, ships have fired 29692 tonnes of import goods, which were later transported in trucks to Kosovo. At the same Terminal have arrived from Kosovo 35.600 tonnes of goods, mainly black for export, which is then headed by ship to other countries.