Shkodra free zone

investments. The proclamation of Shkoder as a free zone with all the
export conveniences implies the removal of the limitations although
the area of the internal Shkoder market is relatively small. Under the
status of the free zone, investors are free to produce for the domestic
market,
the Albanian customs zone and the neighbouring and
regional
countries. Transportation can be easily arranged due to the
favourable geographic position of the City and its access to the sea.
Contrary to the pessimism
of the economic analysts of Tirana, the
phenomena
of the satiation of the “small” market of Shkodra after
the inflow of investments brought by the "free zone", is normal and
not considered by the foreign investors as a restraining factor.
On the contrary they are interested to increase as much as possible
their activity in the commercial and industrial free zone of our city in
order to supply, according to the plan, their markets in general
(here
and there in the world) and also the target markets of consumers
interested or waiting the ordered products “Made in Shkodra”.
As we said at the beginning, this policy, to the tradesmen of Shkodra,
was known since the first half of the 19 arly
th century. They regul
supplied with their goods the common market known at that time as
the axis of Vienna, Trieste, Shkodra, Thessaloniki and Istanbul.
- The abatement of the social-economic crisis
At a time when unemployment is the biggest wound of our
society, the problems caused by the retarded and spontaneous
phenomenon
of the rushed urbanisation should be dealt with before
they gain the full features of the social-economic
crisis. The poverty
of
the unemployed “nurtures” the social conflict that will be certainly
associated with serious acts of crime, thefts, smuggling, Mafia,
etc.
(based on the experience of American crisis of the 30's).
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