Tirana-Dibra Arber Motorway Construction (PPP)
Arber Highway Project
Locations
Type
Road
Status
Suspended
Total Reported Cost
—
Initiatives
Start Date
March 2014
Start of Construction
—
Planned Completion Date
2022
Contractors
Consultants
- —
Implementers
- —
Operators
- —
Funders
| Source(s) | Amount |
|---|---|
| 190,000,000 EUR | |
| None USD |
Description
The two-lane highway is designed to link the Albanian capital, Tirana, with the isolated Dibra region on the Macedonian border through a shortcut into the mountainous area in central Albania. The segment is expected to be just 26.8 km long and aims to shorten the current route by more than 74 km, cutting travel time from 4 to 1.5 hours.
Albanian government and China's Exim Bank signed in December 2014 (during the China-CESEE summit) a memorandum of cooperation under which Exim Bank will finance the completion of Arber motorway towards FYR Macedonia and further to Bulgaria, linking the Albanian Ionian Sea coast and the Bulgarian Black See coast. Works on the motorway started several years ago but construction slowed after the 2010 floods that hit northern Albania, prompting the government to re-allocate some of its planned capital expenditures toward the rehabilitation of the flooded areas.