Albania to reopen Vlora airport construction tender in Oct - report

The construction process was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, local news provider Exit.al quoted Rama as saying last week.

Albania's infrastructure ministry said in late March the tender was suspended without giving a reason for the decision. The ministry previously postponed the bidding deadline to March 30 from March 12.

The proposed term of the concession contract will be 35 years under a build-operate-transfer (BOT) model, infrastructure minister Belinda Balluku said in December.

In 2019, the Albanian government failed to conclude negotiations with a Turkish consortium for the construction of Vlora airport, an investment estimated at 100 million euro ($116.9 million).

Currently, Tirana International Airport Mother Teresa is Albania's only operational airport.

($ = 0.8553 euro)