What port are you talking about?

2022-11-26 19:31:47Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA SHPëTIM NAZARKO
What port are you talking about?
What port are you talking about?

In his famous novel "Three people in a boat without counting the dog", Jerome Jerome, in one episode, talks about two of his friends, who, when they come to dinner, find out that the one who was left alone, had fought the whole in the afternoon with some geese that wanted to destroy the tent. He had fought like a lion, had killed some of them, and it is not known where they had gone to die...

When in the morning they asked him about this war, - he answered surprised - What geese are you talking about, gentlemen?

I followed the discussion of the Prime Minister and the deputies yesterday, and more than Konica, whose name my portal bears, I remembered Jerome Jerome and his geese.

I was waiting to hear about the new port, and of course not the yacht port, that is, the new port that would go to Porto Romano. It is the only real port that remains in Albania, i.e. Durrës. Of course, the fact that its exports are heavy goods, oil, cement, stones, water, chrome, etc., necessarily requires you to look at the existence of the port as the real existence of Albania.

Of course I was expecting to hear more than quotes from Konica's famous book, the explanation for the new cargo port. If that had been explained, the discussion about the yacht harbor, I believe, would not have had any importance. As soon as we had a new port, the empty place could be filled with whatever the Prime Minister or his Ministers thought of, with flower gardens, palaces, roads or even a marina, if you needed one.

So the essence is the new Port of Durrës. Where will he be? How much money does moving old make? How much money does the construction of the new one make? Will this new one be deeper than the old one, which until today only ships with a tonnage of no more than 10-15 thousand tons enter, because if there are more, the ship that drops the cargo will stop far from it , and her longing will come piecemeal because we cannot do otherwise.

Can the military side coexist, if Nato really comes with oil deposits, that is, a warehouse of cartridges with oil barrels? Is the railway project ready that will transport goods throughout the region, ie Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia, etc.?

Then comes a half-fool question. What kind of "Dry Port" is this in Kosovo, basically a huge warehouse, that God knows what it is needed for, when it is not known where it will come from?

What seems to be of concern first and foremost is how much does this new freight port cost and how much does the old one cost to transport?

If we believe what was said (it was good to hear it from the mouth of the Prime Minister), the transport of the old one costs around one billion euros and the new one another billion.

Can anyone in Albania believe that if the government had so much money, it would not advertise anything other than this investment, which would be the biggest in its history?!

The government that brags about a warehouse or a new house, could hardly have left us without telling us about this miracle of investment. The biggest in the country's history.

By God's right, she could tell us. Look, we don't have two millionaires, but we will find them one by one, by selling the buildings we will build and with their taxes, we will build the new port of goods that this one is so worried about.

Such a joke seems more serious than the one told about a black man who found a horseshoe on the road and then said; "Now I need three more horseshoes, a horse and a horse, then I will become a carpenter..." God, oh God, where did we go, Faik Bey said...

If money was to be made with buildings, the Albanians could do it. And it would be much more money than these buildings were made and sold to others. Yes, maybe the money of the palaces is in Ali Baba's Cave and you have to have his slogan to say "Open Sesame".

God, God, where did we go, Faik Bey would say again!

I have probably written a hundred articles on this point about ports and corridors and I will be brief alla Faik Bey.

Mr. Prime Minister!

Faik Benë, of course, whom you yourself told me that I know better than you, told me last night to speak to you in a language that of course you know and understand better than me..

Tell the Prime Minister to take that map of Albania, he will see that it is like a thin, tall and emaciated lady. Put a belt that passes through the middle of it, that is, from Durrës and from Vlora and occupies Poradecna. That her waist is thin... From there the country is connected to the whole world. If you take it from Vlora, which has a greater depth, three times greater in Orikum than the largest ports in the world, or Rotterdam, this strip would cost you no money. It was enough to make a light painting with this port or otherwise a good piece of paper with the characteristics of this port, yours to give to foreigners, you would see some small things.

Without spending a single Albanian money, they would fall on his feet from all over the world, to bring him money to build roads, railways, or whatever his government wanted. That the port makes the roads and vice versa is not true.

The whole world would not come to look for her as a bride, but also far, much further. The Germans say, they would come not only from India and America, China and Japan, but from North Africa where 500 million people and goods come.

That there is nothing that replaces Vlora and then Durrës.

Yes, not to prolong this work. The Romans, who made the Egnatia Road the world's road, built the ports thinking long and hard about where they were going. They had also asked the great Plutarch, who told them that Vlora was the greatest port of antiquity.

For that concern you have about tourism, so you want to buy samarn before the donkey, I'll say it. Tourism is not made by buildings. Tomatoes, potatoes and cows with good milk of the peasant make it, which is served beautifully and well on the tourist's plate... And he buys it tenfold, when he sees where he got it and how he planted it and grew it.

I saw Faik Beu in a dream and I told him;

Don't worry Faik Bey. What happened last night is a habit with us and you know it well. I believe that they are dreams that don't come true because they don't have the money to do it. In new and old Albanian they call them "Manovra ne junkth".

However, I will try to write to say what you wrote about our thin and weak Lady.

Mr. Prime Minister!

Don't be like Nanua, who brings you into Albania from the bottom, Berisha from the neck, nor like you, who is coming from the side. Try to get the lady to fasten her waist belt. Build that port that connects Durrës and Vlora with the Thana Pass, because others will fall on your knees and make and give you the money you need. If you can't do it, then leave it alone in its troubles or sanctity.

Closed with Jerome Jerome. I am not too worried about what was discussed in parliament yesterday. I remembered the English master and then referred to him and I said... What geese are these talking about. I didn't see Port and I won't see it anywhere!


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