Gebrüder Weiss opens new location in Albania

Gebrüder Weiss opened a new location in the Albanian capital Tirana on February 6. This allows the international transport and logistics company to close the geographical gap between Montenegro and North Macedonia and expand its transport connections in Southeast Europe. In the Western Balkans, Gebrüder Weiss is now represented with its own locations in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia.

(Tirana / Lauterach) “Transport to and from Albania has increased significantly over the past ten years. The majority of imported goods come from the European Union. With the Tirana location, the country’s most important transport hub, we want to offer customers from industry and trade direct connections to Albania and from there towards the EU,” says Thomas Moser, Director and Regional Manager Black Sea/CIS at Gebrüder Weiss.

The conditions for this are good: The logistics service provider has a dense land transport network in the neighboring countries as well as in Central and Eastern Europe. “In the first step, we will expand the existing groupage line between North Macedonia (Skopje) and Albania in both directions. New connections to Albania’s main trading partner Italy are also planned,” says Dorina Islami, Country Manager Albania at Gebrüder Weiss.

The economic outlook in Albania is more positive again after the coronavirus pandemic. Economic growth of around three percent is expected for 2023. Imports dominate the trade balance, including food, machinery, chemicals, and textiles. Export products to the European Union, with which a free trade agreement has been in place since 2009, include clothing and food, iron and steel, as well as other raw and building materials.

Photo: © Gebrüder Weiss – Elton Xhafkollari / Image caption: With the new location in Tirana, Gebrüder Weiss offers its customers direct connections between Albania and the European Union.