
The Albanian government is expected to open the 390 million euro tender for the construction of the new commercial port in Durres very soon. The Port Authority has announced in the procurement agency's register of projections the procedure, including financial details of the billionaire contract.
According to the documents, the limit fund of the tender was set 39.3 billion ALL without VAT or about 393 million euros at the current rate. The Port Authority will be advised on the port tendering procedure by the Dutch company Royal Haskoning.
A few days ago, APD signed a direct negotiated contract worth 12 million euros with the Dutch company for consultancy and monitoring on the construction of the new port.
Harbours
This is only the first phase of construction of the new cargo port, which will be built in the Porto Romano area. The government decided to build a new trading port, and dismantled the existing port of Durres to give the land to the Arab company Eagle Hills for the construction of yacht ports and residential towers.
This action has been described by the opposition as one of the biggest corruption issues in Albania's history, through which the government gave 86 hectares of land to a private company and in turn forces Albanian citizens to pay hundreds of millions of euros to build the new port, after the destruction of the existing port in Durres.
According to the forecasts register, the tender for the construction of the new port will open in December this year. /Capital