Overview of Port

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The Port of Vlorë is situated in a large bay towards the southern end of the coast of the Republic of Albania. It has several advantages in terms of its location, which is relatively close to the main east to west shipping route passing through the Straits of Gibraltar and Suez Canal. The deviation required to reach Vlorë from this main route is around 340 nautical miles, or 16 hours for the fast container ships currently in service.

Vlorë also requires a deviation of around 240 miles, or around 12 hours steaming, from the secondary stream of traffic passing south of Sicily and Greece into the Black Sea via the Bosphorus. Vlorë is, of course, very close to the routes passing from the Mediterranean into the Adriatic from the south west and south east.

It is largely protected on the eastern, southern, and northern sides by the coastline of the bay in which it lies, and to some extent by the island of Sazan that is around 4.5 nautical miles to the west of the probable location of the proposed new terminal.

The photos are taken by Alket Islami

He has published a book "Albania from the Air" and in December he will publish the second volume.

For further information you can see his website at: http://alketislami.com/