Albtelecom lowers call tariffs to mobile operators
TIRANA, Aug. 16 – Albtelecom announced Wednesday that starting September 1 call tariffs from fixed lines to mobile operators would lower by 12 leks per minute, from 74 leks to 62 leks per minute, making a much required step from the consumers. That is made following new interconnection contracts that Albtelecom made recently with the two mobile operators in the country, AMC and Vodafone.
Lower insurance tariffs
Government promotes imported machinery, lowers insurance tariffs In a promoting step the government decided to ask farmers to pay back in seven years all the machinery and other technology they have profited from a Japanese grant. It will be paid in leks to the exchange rate of the day. The other commission rates will not be paid from them. That is a clear sign of promoting the local farmers and urging development of agriculture. As promised during the electoral campaign last year and in the last year, the government lowered the payment for social insurance, starting from Sept. 1 to 4,323 leks per month, or 32.9 percent of the monthly salary, where 21.7 percent would be paid by the employer and 11.2 percent from the employee. For the insurance the minimum monthly salary was considered to be 13,140 leks.
Albania To Start $8.76 Mln Foreign-Funded Hospital Project by Year’s End
TIRANA, Aug. 14 – Albania will start building a $8.76 million (6.9 million euro) regional hospital in Kavaja, southern Albania, by the end of the current year, a Health Ministry official said on Monday.”By the end of the year we will pick the company that will execute the construction works,” said spokeswoman Odeta Halili.The project is jointly funded by the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) and the OPEC Fund for International Development. IDB is expected to lend $5.69 million for the construction works and technical consultancy to the project, while OPEC will fund the purchase of medical equipment for the hospital worth $2.42 million. The Albanian government will provide $650,000 to cover administrative costs.The 80-bed hospital will have pediatrics, surgery, maternity, pathology wards and a small rehabilitation ward.It will provide health care services to some 120,000 people living in the city of Kavaje and the region, who now need to go to the nearby city of Durres, in the west, or to the capital Tirana.
Servkom and Albpetrol merge in one
FIER, Aug. 14 – Oil research company Servkom and the other extracting one Albpetrol merged in one company, the two state-owned companies said. Their boarding councils decided their merge and Servkom turns into a department at the Albpetrol considering it as the successful solution for more production in the future. Servkom was not profitable in the last years creating a significant deficit.
