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Ministry of Public Affairs, Transport and Telecommunication

 

Durres Port Authority

 

Tirrenia Company

 

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  THE HISTORY

At it's early beginnings, shipping and forwarding state agency, known with the name ADETARE, was the only shipping agency in Albania . Centered in Durres it covered all ports of Albania , facing a big work volume. In 1984, as a consequence of a bilateral state agreement , began the first ferry- boat line Trieste - Durres -Trieste of Adriatica Venezia company and Adetare was established as agent of the company. After 1990, with the beginning of a demokratin era in our country, increased others ferry-boat lines with other destinations as Bari , Ancona , Coper.The bulk of the work of this agency increased in an exponential way because besides the ordinary work with the traditional ferries , increased the work with the ferry-boat lines. Adetare continued till 1996, the year in which the agency changed its name, in Shipping and Forwarding State Agency , Taulantia. At this time, a cooperation agreement between the ferry-boat company Adriatica Navigazione Venezia and Taulantia agency, was signed in which Taulantia was nominated as the General Agent for Albania of Adriatica's Company. In 1999 it transforms from state enterprise into a joint-stock company. As it still today, although it operates with just only one ferry-boat line, Durres-Bari-Durres and with the volume of 400.000 passengers per year. In 2003 the Tirrenia company di Navigazione Napoli and Taulantia nominated as General Agent of Tirrenia Company in Albania.