Currency: 1 lek (L) = 100 qintars
Exchange rates: leke (L) per US$1 - 100 (January 1995), 99 (January 1994), 97 (January 1993), 50 (January 1992), 25 (September 1991)
Fiscal year: calendar year
@Albania:Transportation
Railroads:
total: 543 km line connecting Podgorica (Serbia and Montenegro) and
Shkoder completed August 1986
standard gauge: 509 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 34 km 0.950-m gauge (1990)
Highways:
total: 18,450 km
paved: 17,450 km
unpaved: earth 1,000 km (1991)
Inland waterways: 43 km plus Albanian sections of Lake Scutari, Lake
Ohrid, and Lake Prespa (1990)
Pipelines: crude oil 145 km; petroleum products 55 km; natural gas 64
km (1991)
Ports: Durres, Sarande, Shergjin, Vlore
Merchant marine:
total: 11 cargo ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 52,967 GRT/76,887
DWT