Shkodra free zone

Steamship of Shkoder in the river
of Buna
This yacht together with the Scutari, Vilajet and Fantasy steamers,
the last one bought from the widow of Arciduche Maximilian (who
was killed in Mexico in 1867) made up the Muzhani family fleet.
Like all the other steamers belonging to Shkodra, the fleet of
Muzhani family sailed holding the Turkish flag. In their interests, the
city’s fleet transported passengers, goods, various materials and
performed postal services, sailing northern areas like the ports of
Shkodra, Obot, Shengjin, Venice, Trieste and the southern routes to
Vlora, Preveza, Alexandria particularly to Malt-Bengazi.
It is worth mentioning that at that time the journeys were
organised in a fixed time-table. In Shkodra one could find a trans-
Mediterranean basin passenger ship. It would be sufficient to realize
that the journey from Shkodra to Trieste lusted 48 hours.
The reason for mentioning the above facts is not draw in
details Shkodra’s fl eet and its navigable units but to
give
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