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The concessionaire of "Rrugës e Kombit" collected 77% more than expectations in 2024

2026-03-09 17:35:11Biznes SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

The concessionaire of "Rrugës e Kombit" collected 77% more than

Concessions in our country, especially contracts with direct payments from the state budget, have resulted in the most profitable businesses in terms of profit rates and risks that are often transferred to the state.

Albania Highway Concession Company, which is maintaining the National Highway under a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) concession, has generated around 2.6 billion lek in revenue in 2024, out of around 1.47 billion lek projected in the contract. Actual revenues are around 77% higher than the projections in the contract, according to data from the Ministry of Finance in the special report on concessions for 2024.

According to the graph below, the real turning point comes in 2019, when collected revenues increase significantly and approach 1.8 billion lek, exceeding forecasts by 40% for the first time.

This shows that the flow of vehicles and the use of the Milot–Morinë road had increased much faster than initially estimated, making this axis an important source of revenue. In 2020, a temporary decrease in collected revenues was observed, related to the pandemic and movement restrictions, but even in that year they remained above 1.4 billion lekë, again higher than the projection in the contract.

After 2021, the graph shows a stabilization and then a new strong growth. The collected revenues exceed 2 billion lek and continue to grow in 2022, 2023 and 2024, reaching around 2.6 billion lek in 2024. Meanwhile, the estimated revenues remain more stable and grow at a slower pace, fluctuating around 1.2–1.5 billion lek.

This concession contract provides for the guarantee by the contracting authority of a threshold of traffic revenues determined in the contract, as well as their division between the concessionaire and the Contracting Authority in the event of exceeding this threshold.

Meanwhile, for the realization of the works of art specified in the contract, part of their cost is covered through subsidies from the state budget.

In 2024, the revenue threshold was 1.47 billion lek, but in reality 1.3 billion lek more was collected, of which 40 percent or 452 million lek goes to the contracting authority, and the remaining 60% or 678 million lek goes to the concession.

This performance has transformed the PPP contract into an increasingly profitable asset, with revenues growing year after year at a rate far exceeding any expectations in the contract. But meanwhile, for users, the payment burden is much heavier than what was initially anticipated when the project's economic model was built. (Monitor)


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