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"Tirana, forbidden apple for the north"/ The toll at Milot-Balldren will be 4 EURO per vehicle on just 17 kilometers of road!

2024-12-20 10:16:58Fokus SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
"Tirana, forbidden apple for the north"/ The toll at Milot-Balldren
Milot-Balldre

The Ministry of Infrastructure announced a day ago the competition to award a concession for the construction of the Milot-Balldre highway.

This segment is part of the so-called Adriatic-Ionian Corridor or as it is otherwise known, the Blue Corridor, which the government has decided to build entirely under concession.

So far, the Albanian government has tendered 3 segments of this Corridor.

The first, which has already been completed, is the Thumanë-Kashar highway, while two other segments from Kashar to Fier have been tendered, but although the winners have been announced for almost two years now, the contracts have not been signed.

Milot-Balldre is the fourth concession segment. It is 17 kilometers long and will cost 182.5 million euros in construction costs alone.

If design, maintenance and operation costs are included, the private investment is estimated at 365 million euros for the entire 35-year concession period.

But what will Albanian citizens pay for this road?

According to the tender documents, the government has decided that the reference toll fee on the Milot Balldre segment will be 0.12 euros per kilometer.

This means that for the 17 kilometers of road, simple vehicles will pay 4.1 euros for each crossing.

"Tirana, forbidden apple for the north"/ The toll at Milot-Balldren

This makes this axis one of the most expensive in Europe, while even in developed countries of the European Union, toll fees are 0.07 euros per kilometer or almost twice as cheap.

Tirana, forbidden apple for the north

With these crossing costs, the north of Albania is practically isolated from moving towards Tirana. If a citizen of Shkodra were to travel towards the South, he would have to pay at least 7.5 euros to get to Tirana, a figure that comes from the crossing fee from Balldreni to Milot of 4 euros and then from Milot to Kashar of another 3.3 euros including VAT.

But this figure does not include the cost of the other segment from Balldreni to Shkodra. According to the government, this segment will also be given as a concession. And if the costs of the passage will be similar to the other segments, then the travel bill from Shkodra to Tirana will be around 12 euros one way. While the return trip will cost almost 25 euros. Cheaper are the Çeti planes to London, Florence and Seville. 

This cost practically makes the capital a forbidden apple for citizens of the north. While the south of the country will undoubtedly be more expensive than traveling abroad.  

Milot Balldre is a road that has no tunnels or extraordinary works of art, which increase the cost.

But the problem of heavy tolls begins with the artificial inflating of construction, maintenance, and operating costs by the private concessionaire.

On top of these, the cost of capital is added and of course the private concessionaire's profit throughout the 35-year concession period.

According to data in the tender documents for Milot Balldre, it is expected that the private sector will have a cost of 365 million euros excluding VAT.

But this figure does not include the cost of capital and its profit. If you add these two items, then the value that Albanian citizens will pay in 35 years to travel on this road exceeds 1 billion euros./ Capital


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