5 hours agoAlbania holds promise: Kosovo Customs Begins Work in Durres
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)Today, the official ceremony of the start of Kosovo Customs work in the port of Durres is held. This is expected to facilitate trade, the rapid movement of goods and passengers. This is also expected to reduce business costs, as well as help boost the economy of both states. But to the realization [...]
Today, the official ceremony of the start of Kosovo Customs work in the port of Durres is held.
This is expected to facilitate trade, the rapid movement of goods and passengers. This is also expected to reduce business costs, as well as help boost the economy of both states.
But to the realization of this cooperation, there is a long history of promises and expectations.
Albanian authorities promised Kosovo the port of Durres, following former Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha's promise that the port of Shengjin would be given to Kosovo. Berisha's promise was given in 2009, and it never came true.
A few years after that story, in 2016, Albania promised another port for Kosovo and Durres. This time the promise was made in Edi Rama's government.
At a table organised at the time in Pristina, Albania's Finance Minister Arben Ahmetaj said Kosovo importers and Kosovo can use the port of Durres and that this port will function as the last stop for Kosovo businesses.
The mayor's “is the idea that Durres port will be with unique procedures for Kosovo entrepreneurs, said more simply in the context of this port's fasilization of trade, to function as the last stop for Kosovar importers”, the minister Ahmetaj had indicated at the preparation meeting for the joint meeting of the two governments.
