The railroad to Bulgaria, as announced, will be finished expressly in an one- year period. Plans are drawn, joint meetings held and construction firms mobilised. The financial side remains to be resolved, the necessary 120 million dollars being not as difficult to provide as it is to make the right choice of investors. Interested financial partners are located, such as Germany, Italy, Turkey and George Soros. For the sake of the fact, Albania has also accelerated the whole operation and some Macedonian construction firms already applied for the project.
West corridor is finished.
The Albanian ports of Duress and Valona are of a limited storage capacities. The technology of loading crude oil and its derivatives is complex and requires special pipelines from the tanker to the storage space. The Albanian ports lack such a technology. Albania does have reconstruction plans, which are estimated to amount up to 34 million dollars. Since the Duress port is too shallow to receive large tankers, the Valona port may seem to be more appropriate for oil transport to Macedonia, as it is 13 meters deep and has a larger storage space.