Project ID: 66125

Chinese government provides a grant for a container inspection scanner in 2007

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

Albania

Sector

Trade policies and regulations (Code: 330)

Flow type

Grant

Infrastructure

No

Category

Intent

Development (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Commercial

Development

Representational

Mixed

Financial Flow Classification

ODA-like (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Official Development Assistance

Other Official Flows

Vague (Official Finance)

Flows categorized based on OECD-DAC guidelines

Project lifecycle

Status

Completion (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment

2007-04-30

Actual start

2008-04-15

Actual complete

2008-04-15

Geography

Description

On April 30 and May 22, 2007, the Chinese Government and the Government of Albania signed letters of exchange related to a Container Inspection Equipment Project. China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) was the source of grant funding, but the monetary value of its grant commitment is unknown. This project involved the acquisition and installation of container inspection equipment at the Port of Durrës. The contractor responsible for the provision and installation of this customs scanning equipment was Nuctech Company Limited. It signed an equipment supply contract with the General Customs Administration of Albania on December 4, 2007. Then, on April 15, 2008, the equipment was officially handed over to Durrës port authorities in the presence of Prime Minister Sali Berisha. However, the equipment reportedly only worked for 200 hours before it broke down and required repairs by Nuctech Company Limited. The equipment was “out of use” between 2012 and early 2015 (when Nuctech Company Limited finally made repairs).

Additional details

The Chinese project title is 阿尔巴尼亚集装箱检查系统项目

Number of official sources

7

Number of total sources

9

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Government of Albania [Government Agency]

Implementing agencies [Type]

Nuctech Company Limited (Tongfang Vision Technology Co., Ltd.) [State-owned Company]