Shkodra free zone

increased the financial revenues that the Turkish administration was
not obliged to provide for the city. Being self-administrators of the
economy, with a centuries long experience, unlike what we witness
today, Shkodra’s businessmen were interested to keep fully efficient
structures of the city administration, excellent port services, trade
courts, post services, agencies and chambers of commerce, foreign
and national banks, schools, multi-religious institutions, etc.
At the present conditions of territorial, railway, fluvial and
airline isolation because of lack of infrastructure development, we
should insist more than ever to realize the 1895 project to transform
Buna in a fluvial route along all its length. The Government has no
reason to object this undertaking at a time when urgent measures
should be taken to bring the river under control, because in the recent
years and especially after the hydro- technical works over Drini
River, the river-bed of Buna has undergone substantial changes.
The Drini water that actually flows into Buna River is now
clearer and freer of solid underneath materials, which means it
possesses the proper considerable eroding power. No one has
ascertained all these enormous changes. The most typical phenomena
are clearly reflected in the riverbanks that continuously fall-down.
The amplitude of water oscillations is about 6 meters at the vertical
axis. This is clearly observed in the village of Dajç and Obot.
The research studies show that each year the river corrodes
1215 hectares of fertile agricultural ground. The continuous and
highly intensified erosions in the villages of Dajç and Obot are
seriously putting at risk the protective embankments and the
inhabited centres. The corroded banks in many places have
approached the embankments up to 10-15 meters.
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