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Alabbar and Rama's palaces were sunk by greed/ The company subcontracted the construction at prices like Reconstruction
2026-05-15 15:44:01 / EKONOMI&SOCIALE
When the Albanian government approved the controversial Durrës Marina project, the Arab company Eagle Hills immediately began contacting Albanian construction companies for subcontracting. But almost all serious companies ran away when they heard the proposals of Alabbar's company.
The reason was the price at which the company sought to subcontract the construction. Alabbar's managers offered construction companies a price ranging from 400-450 euros per square meter, the same as the reconstruction prices, where the buildings had neither the luxury nor the complexity of the towers that Eagle Hills claimed to build in the Durrës Marina.
In the end, the proposals were accepted by several second-hand companies, who were clear that at those prices they would have to compromise on the quality of the construction. In parallel with this, the project began distributing contracts to people close to the government, from supervision to quality control.
It didn't take long for the great sloppiness, along with corruption, to take its toll. Two of the Navy buildings sank by about 30 centimeters due to the lack of savings on the concrete slabs and piles that were supposed to reinforce the unstable sandy soil, while other facilities remain a concern.
What was promoted as a project that would change Albania's tourist image by raising it to a world-class level, resulted in a fiasco with buildings sinking. The company has now begun work to correct the defects, through injection to freeze the ground and reinforcement of piles to stop the buildings from sinking.
This will significantly increase the cost of construction, but it cannot completely remove the great reputational damage that the project has suffered. Citizens now have every right to consider it madness to buy properties at prices that go up to three thousand euros per meter in a sinking building.
The Durrës Marina sank due to the greed of the strategic investor, who in the business plan had programmed 60 million euros for marketing, but in the meantime saved on concrete and iron.
This is the bill of greed, but in the meantime the damage is on the citizens who have purchased the properties and on the public budget, since the government is a shareholder in the project. It is now up to the justice authorities to extract responsibility from the designers, builders, supervisors and even those who certified the quality of the construction.
Meanwhile, the controversial project in which the government invested so much has now been permanently tarnished./Kapital
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