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Adriatic

Deadly Albania Earthquake Casualty and Damage Tolls Climb

2019-11-26 by Phil Butler

USGA Albania Quake

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Albania’s capital of Tirana shortly before 4 a.m. this morning, killing at least six people.

Tags: Adriatic, Adriatic quake, Albania earthquake, Balkans earthquake, catastrophic quakes, Durres, Durres earthquake, geology, Tirana earthquake, Tirana quake, travel warning, USGS

Montenegro Resort Gets SOCAR Funding

2016-04-12 by Phil Butler

Boca Bay

In tourism development news from Baku, an interview given by Montenegro President Filip Vujanovic tells of Azerbaijan investors putting money into a new resort slated to open in 2017. Here’s the news along with a little preview of the resort to come. The Azerbaijan national oil company SOCAR, along with large scale Azerbaijani companies,  Pasha […]

Tags: Adriatic, Boca Bay, Filip Vujanović, Ilham Aliyev, Montenegro resorts, Montenegro vacations, One & Only, One & Only resorts, SOCAR, Tivat Bay

Surprising Travel Modes: Superfast Ferries

2012-10-12 by Phil Butler

Superfast Ferries routes

Odds are you never thought of traveling from Italy to Greece via ultra fast auto ferry. You probably did not even consider there is such a thing outside of a Bond flick, let alone churning across the length of the Adriatic aboard one. Here at Argo, we are all about the love of travel and wonderful, novel ways of “getting there” too.

Tags: Adriatic, Adriatic Sea, albania, Audi, car travel, cruises, Europcar, ferry, Greece, Greek Islands, Italy, Korfu, SeaSmiles

Al-Imtiaz Group Eyes Investments in Albania

2012-05-29 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Albania is confident of securing greater investment from the Middle East, following the successful visit of a high level delegation from the Al-Imtiaz Investment Group in Kuwait, which travelled to the Balkan country as special guests of Albanian President Dr. Bamir Topi.

Tags: Abdullatif Al-Abdulrazzaq, Adriatic, Al-Imtiaz Investment Group, albania, delegation, Dr. Bamir Topi, Fatmir Cela, investment, kuwait, President Topi

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