EXPAND ALBANIAN TRANSPORTATION NETWORK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600400138-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 138
• Publication Date: June 29, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPOR~
CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
SUBJECT
HOW
PUBLISHED
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DATE
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LANGUAGE
Transportation - Rail, road
Daily newspaper
Tirana
17 Jan 1951
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INFORMATION 1951
DATE DIST. a 9 Jun 1951
N0. OF PAGES 1
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT N0.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
EXPAND ALBAN-.SAN TRANSPORTATION NEPWORK
On 21 De.:ember? 1950, the Pegin-Elbasan railroad was inaugurated. It
is the Fourth railroad constructed by Albanian youth. With this line,
35.3 kilometers of n.ew railroad have now been added to the Albanian trans-
portation network. A total ?oP 26,863 young people worked on the project.
Thanks to the Two-Year Plan snd the aid oP the USSR, many automobile
roads and railroads have been constructed. The most important railroad
is the Kashar Industrial Zane railroad, which Joins the Stalin textile
region with Duryea. To build this 7-kilometer railroad, 1,923 young men
and women worked voluntarily. By this railroad the important Staling tex-
tile region can be continuously supplied with raw materials:
The government is now plarning to build new local and rational roads,
es well as to improve existing ones. In addition to the Pegin->;lbasan and
;;he Y?ashar Industrial Zone railroads and the Shemeri-KolgecaJ automobile
road, the Two-Year Plan ca11s for a number oP intensive improvements oP
roads Joining regions in which important industrial and agricultural enter-
prises are located? Fcr example, the MemaliaJ Mine in the Patos region,
the 1(ITabea M1IIe, Lue DtllYi~ce iniiacy au.'~.. Gt::CrII ~~:'~ b??-- ^-^-?nnl?rtP~_ vi'th
the main road? During 1949 - 1950, 30.885 kilometers of this type of road
were opened, not including the 8.4-kilometer Tepelene-MemaliaJ rood, the
13-kilometer Shemeri-KolgecaJ road,~an4 manybthers. Many roads were im-
proved in the Patos region, Joining that center with producing areas.
Besides the construction of new roads, special attention has been
paid to the improvement and care o~ national roads which had been badly
damaged by heavy traffic. For this reason, the streets of the larger
cities, such as Tirana, Durres, Valona, etc., have been surfaced with
two layers oP asphalt, as have the highways that connect these cities.
The total area of resurfacing was 774,000 square meters. During the
same 'period, 2,400 kilometers cP other roads were surfaced, Por which
more-than 132 million lek were spent.
During the Two-Year Flan period, 285,292,000 lek have been r3pent Por
road building. In .1950, 50 million lek more were spent Por road construc-
tion than in 1948<
STATE NAVY NSRa
ARMY AIR FBI
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