Shkodra free zone

credible arguments and show, first of all, that this city has existed
because of its port status and its closure was a big mistake, one of the
most aggravating factors to drive the social-economic backwardness
in last 50 years.
Even on the present conditions of fluvial transportation
(without any investment in the river), the coming of an ordinary
passenger ferry in Shkodra would be very possible.
It would be enough to hear the ferry siren today and
tomorrow it would be justifiable to open a consulate and other
foreign representative offices, as well as, all the administrative
structures that are actually missing in the port-city of Shkodra.
We should develop the infrastructure we don’t have
The start of the democratic process in 1992 implied the real
unification of Shkoder with Europe and the world through
a concrete infrastructure.
Years
passed and, unfortunately, no infrastructure was
build. Instead, priority was given to subjective linkages (adheresions,
associations with international organisations and counterparts,
exchanges of envoys of all kinds) that the experience has proved that
they cannot
resist for long. It is about time not to waste any more of
it trying to establish new “friendships”, but it the time to embark on
the most important undertaking - the construction of the
infrastructure at home and beyond the state borders towards Europe
and further more. In 1858, the Austrian Consul in Albania wrote to
Vienna that in the near future the Thessaloniki harbour would
eclipse
Shkoder’s market because it was connected with land roads that
were in better condition than those of Shkodra port-city. Without
the infrastructure in place, we cannot dodge the image of a small,
poor and isolated country. Appropriate departments of both
central
and local
government should accept projects that fulfil our needs
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