The Importance of the geographical position of Kosovo in increasing the Trade, Transit and International Transport in the Balkans

• Author: Ramadan Mazrekaj
• Position: Kosovo Ministry of Infrastructure
• Pages: 147-155

ISSN 2410-3918 Academic Journal of Business, Administration, Law and Social Sciences Vol 1 No 2

Acces online at www.iipccl.org IIPCCL Publishing, Tirana-Albania July 2015

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e Importance of the geographical position of Kosovo in increasing the

Trade, Transit and International Transport in the Balkans

Dr.sc. Ramadan Mazrekaj

Kosovo Ministry of Infrastructure

Abstract

is paper analyzes the eect of the main highways in Kosovo (Roads 6 and 7) in the development

of trade and transport of goods. In this sense, another objective of this paper is the eect of the

Kosovo highways (Kosovo Roads 6 and 7) in developing the Albanian Sea Ports (Port of Durres,

Vlora and Shengjin). Many Balkan countries are working in the improvement of roads and rail

capacity in order to develop multimodal transport, aiming always at strengthening a dominant

position in the Balkans, to serve as a connection bridge for the transportation of goods between

Asia and Europe. Parts of this paper are also the movement of goods, trade exchange between

Kosovo and other European countries, and a short analysis of the Trans CAD soware program

consisting of calculations of the quantity of goods that can be traded in Kosovo or through its

territory (transit).

Keywords: Kosovo, transport, highways, geographical position, trade exchange.

Introduction

e essence of the determination and integration process of Kosovo Road Network into

the Pan European networks is without doubt the denition of international and transit

trac that will be able to build Kosovo’s main Road Network such as: Road 6, 6a, 6b and 7.

It is necessary to calculate the matrix of origin, in order to solve this problem through

modeling and stimulation of Kosovo’s Road Network (KRN) and the Trans European

Road Network (TERN), - Destination (OD) of the movement of goods and passengers

between states belonging to Kosovo Road Network and Trans European Road Networks.

e territory of Kosovo shows interest in the development of trade, because it is the

shortest route for the transportation of goods from the Black Sea (Sea Port of Varna and

Burgas) and the Adriatic Sea (Sea Port of Durres and Shengjin), compared to other ports

in the Western Balkans.

Trade on Origin-Destination Relation (OD Goods Matrix)

With the aim of obtaining practical results we have exploited the Trans CAD soware

program, in order to analyze the movement of ow of goods in relation to origin -

destination as a mathematical model. is model assumes that traveling produced in

origin and attracted to a destination are in proportion to the total production of trips in

origin and destination.