Projects

Date: 2015-2016

The Promoter: Ministry of Infrastructure & Energy of Albania, Ministry of Finance and Economy

The Beneficiary: HSH - Albanian Railways

Lead IFI: EBRD

Brief description:  This project fulfills the objectives of the National Strategy for Development and Integration (NSDI) 2015-2020 for the modernization of the railways,and is in line with the Sectoral Transport Strategy and its Action Plan 2016-2020. The railway segment Tirana - Durres and the connection to Rinas Airport is now part of the TEN-T Indicative Network Extension for the Western Balkans: Route 2 - Podgorica - Durres / Tirana. 

This project will affect the quality of citizens'movement between the two largest cities in Albania. The time it will take to travel from the center of Tirana to Mother Teresa Airport will be about 12 minutes with express train while from Tirana center to Durrës center it will take about 22 minutes. It should be mentioned that this project is a novelty in the movement of the passengers towards Mother Teresa Airport throught he use of the train that will compete directly with the use of private cars, buses and taxies, affecting also the improvement of the traffic at peak hours. The project realizes with full effectiveness the multimodality of the transport system in the metropolitan area of so called DURRANA (joint words of Durres and Tirana).