"Rama will eliminate the Port of Durres"/ Berisha: Albanians will pay 1.2 billion euros to build another one like a chicken coop

2026-04-24 19:58:00, Aktualitet CNA

"Rama will eliminate the Port of Durres"/ Berisha: Albanians will pay

The Democratic Party held a roundtable discussion on the Port of Durres this afternoon. During his speech at the meeting, the leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, stated that Prime Minister Edi Rama, despite the projects and geostrategy of the Port of Durres, has decided to destroy this port in order to build it in Porto Romano.

"Unexpectedly and beyond any imagination, Edi Rama will one day come out and tell Albanians that he will build the Dubai of 1001 nights in the port of Durres. He will destroy the port of Durres. He will turn it into a marina, where they will build 12,000 apartments, 12,600 apartments, 6 five- and six-star hotels, swimming pools of the highest standards and a marina for 200 yachts on the public lands of that port. And he will build another port in Porto Romano, which will be built by, will be built by the private sector. Anyone who is familiar with this project will find that Albanian citizens are being robbed of their number one public asset. We do not have any other public asset that can match the value of the port of Durres ," said Berisha.

Among other things, he added that the port in Porto Romano will be built with citizens' taxes. He said that Albanians will also pay "1 billion euros from their taxes to build a port of Kotec."

"The new port will be built from public money, from citizens' taxes. So, in addition to being robbed of a port worth about 4 billion euros, with the territory and everything, Albanians must also pay 1 billion euros from their taxes to build a shanty port, a port 1/4 of the size of the existing port, which in 2013, we left the project and the large companies contracted to deepen it, to deepen it to the extent that it would accept 50,000-ton ships.

And it was one of the most powerful German port companies that had won the tender and would carry out the works. Now, the Albanians must not only hand over the port of Durres to Edi Rama for his Dubai of 1001 nights, but they must also pay 1 billion euros or even more, 1.2 billion euros to build a quagmire port 1/4 the size of the port of Durres in Porto Romano.

"There is no, I have, I have declared and I declare that this is an issue of extraordinary national importance. No one has committed such theft, such plunder against Albanians, no invader, no empire, nor anyone else. No one has trampled on the vital strategic interests of Albanians like this government ," Berisha said. /CNA