The new trading port in Durres still saw technical projects; NATO Versus Masterplane

The new trading port, a strategically important work designed to be built in Porto Romano, still does not have a detailed technical project.

Despite deadlines for completing the draft of the feasibility project by 8 months were extended to 15 months, it has not yet surrendered.

Due to the postponement of the feasibility study deadlines under the announcement at the Public Procurement Authority (APP) by the Portal Durres (APD) in September 2022, it is taught to have been the master plan of the new trade port in Porto Romano from NATO, as this project did not adhere to NATO's capacities for handling maritime means and squares in service for armed forces.

The Master Plan for the new trade project was drafted by Dutch company “Royal Hasconing” and introduced to the public in December last year by Albanian authorities. It will again be the Dutch company that will draft the new port feasibility study. But sources from the maritime industry market claimed for “Monitor” that it is expected again to delay this delay in implementing the project, which is expected to seek additional funding.

The fund, worth 223.2m, was added to the deadline for completing the drafting of the port technical tender project.

Initially the deadline for completing the detailed technical project of the newly integrated Durres port of Porto Romano referred to the announcement of the tender from APD to APP in January 2022 was 8 months from the date of the contract's signing. The contract was signed on December 21, 2021, and the feasibility study was due to be delivered in August 2022. And the procurement fund was $1,145,354,372.

But the Portual Durres Authority in September 2022 has been obliged to change the deadlines of the technical project from 8 months to 15 months (with the new technical project deadlines must be delivered full in March 2023) and add 195% to the service implementation fund. The new procurement fund was worth 1,365,777,813. The extension of the deadline was the change of master plan for the design of the maritime base, which conflicts with NATO standards, as it did not adhere to their capacities.

“A key aspect of this project is the construction of an autonomous sea base for the R Marine Force. S., connected to the road and rail network. The Sea Force Command, co-ordinating with US representatives who through the General Staff have submitted specific requests, has forwarded to the Portual Durres Authority the capacities needed, based on the current shipping inventory of the Sea Force, ships that have visited our country under the exercises of Allied countries such as “defender Europe 21x2> and the access to all vessels of the type <3x>

This idea, articulated at the level of political co-ordination, during NATO Defence Ministers Ministers' Ministers in Brussels, at 15-16 June, has found principled and supporting SACEUR, demanding that Albanian authorities further detail their project, making the replacement of the design voice for the naval base for the R marine force. S, in the area for use of NATO forces.

The infrastructure project destined for the handling of naval means and the sites in service to the armed forces, according to MASTERPLANIT, does not adhere to NATO required capacities.

For further discussion, there is a need for amending the initial contract, changing the implementation deadline and the total value of the procurement contract in question. The amend value does not exceed the 20% value of the initial contract”, the tender procurement documents quoted.

The port of Durres will be moved to Porto Romane to pave the way for development of the project, which turns it into tourist ports -- an initiative that has faced debate over the fact that the financing and high surface formula will be provided for real estate construction. /Monitor. al