Shkodra free zone

investment will be followed by the deserved development of this
zone with railways and cable-car transportation.
The Japanese have carefully
considered their investment
because there are over 70 areas of use of fluorides and according to
the geo-chemistry data comes out that in their
mineral field, the
presence
of poly-metals and rare valuable minerals is certain.
Decorative-stone
sources
In Mes, Rrapshstare and in the city of Shkodra, over the
Tepe
hills (close to Rozafa Castle), thousands of marbled calcareous
stones with pleasant decorative features are found.
Some Italian companies are highly interested to invest a lot in
the source zones, while two Austrian companies and a Turkish one
want to realise middle and small investments, exploiting firstly the
Tepe reserves that possess a deeper marbling feature making them
very
pleasant (1 million tons).
Industries
Within the climate of a market economy and a real opening
(conditioned by the construction of the infrastructure) the city-port
of
Shkodra, located on the separating border between Albania and the
Republic of Montenegro, possesses all the geographical possibilities
and
advantages to became, as Mehdi Frasheri foresaw it, a first hand
commercial transportation
centre with a developed industry. In the
conditions
of trade liberalisation and economic globalisation, a
special attention should be paid to the construction of those
industries that can survive and get hurt as little as possible from the
market competition. The escape of Shkodra
region from the
backwardness can not happen without the construction of a diverse
light industry.
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