Construction of 2 bypasses of Elbasan and Tirana - Roads, Balluku: New projects that are included in the 2025 budget
"Road infrastructure is a priority in the medium term, as the budget for 2025 is 33.48 billion ALL, 4.1 billion ALL or 14% more than 2024". During the discussions of the draft budget for the coming year, the Minister of Infrastructure and Energy Belinda Balluku announced the projects that will be financed, emphasizing that Corridor VIII and Corridor Blu are the 2 main infrastructural works that contribute not only to the economic development of the country, but also in the region. Balluku also stopped at the construction of bypasses of Elbasan and Tirana, stressing that their realization is very necessary.
"Bypasses have always been financed with EU loans and grants. In the case of the Elbasan bypass, since we had it under a contract with Cooperazione Italiana, which took a long time without giving any results. On the other hand, it is a weekly show, we witness the traffic that is recorded on Friday afternoons, at the end of the Tirana - Elbasan highway and on Sundays in the Elbasan - Tirana direction. It is necessary to proceed as quickly as possible with this project, giving the possibility that traffic from the east no longer enters Elbasan. The application for the Tirana bypass was made a long time ago, in 2016, and of course it has gone through several stages from the conception of the project to its maturity. But, we are talking about a period of 8 years and it should be taken into account that the projects lose relevance during the passing years because the very economy that dictates the development of the infrastructure has developed in a very fast way. We have combined this package with a loan from the EBRD and an EU Grant. EBRD, due to the long time, has requested the review of the price. Reviewing credit only. Even in the case of the Vorë-Hani i Hoti railway, only the loan is reviewed, leaving aside the amount of the grant. The weight of the loan is added to us", said Balluku.
The minister also spoke about the financing of public-private partnership contracts, while she informed that the Arbri road will be completed in March 2025, while the Murrizi tunnel is intended to open at the end of the year.
The budget for public-private partnership contracts for 2025 is 18.53 billion ALL for One of the most important contracts is Arbri Street. It ends in March 2025, there have been several decisions of the Technical Council to postpone the term of this contract. If all the processes will go as they have gone so far, we hope that the tunnel will be opened at the end of the year, but the deadline of the contract is March 2025. The repayment from the state budget will end in 2031.
The total budget of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy for 2025 amounts to 74 billion ALL, of which 6.7 billion ALL are current expenditures and 67.38 billion ALL are capital expenditures. Of the capital expenditures, 53.56 billion ALL or 79.5% of the total are domestic financing and 13.82 billion or 20.5% are foreign financing.
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