This is a best prospect industry sector for this country. Includes a market overview and trade data.

Overview

North Macedonia is situated in the center of the Balkan Peninsula at the intersection of several road and railway links.  Two Pan-European Transportation Corridors, Corridor 8 (east-west) and Corridor 10 (north-south) pass through North Macedonia.  Corridor 8 consists of the E-65 road from Varna, Bulgaria to Durres, Albania via Sofia, Bulgaria and Skopje, North Macedonia.  Corridor 10 consists of the E-75 road from Athens, Greece via Skopje, North Macedonia, Belgrade, Serbia, and Zagreb, Croatia to Munich, Germany.

Improvements in the past few years focused primarily on the elimination of bottlenecks and the completion of the infrastructure on both corridors.

Leading Sub-Sector

North Macedonia aims to position itself as a key crossroad in pan-European Corridor 8 (east-west) and Corridor 10 (north-south) inland transportation routes across Southeastern Europe.  When it comes to shipping goods by land versus by sea, these surface transportation corridors cannot compete with alternative maritime routes on price alone.  However, North Macedonia believes it can capitalize on its advantage in terms of distance, compared to much longer sea routes, to be able to establish competitive transit routes across its territory.  To date, the maintenance budget has been inadequate to keep roads in good condition.  There are segments in the road network that require capacity expansion because of traffic growth.  The expansion of motorway segments would provide additional business opportunities for U.S. companies.

Opportunities

U.S. companies can participate in infrastructure development in the areas of construction equipment and materials, tollbooth equipment, electronic data processing equipment, traffic monitoring, project management services, and telecommunications equipment.

With its centrally positioned geographical location, North Macedonia could serve as a distribution center for U.S. vendors operating in the Balkan region and beyond.
Several foreign airline companies (Adria Airways, Air Serbia, Austrian Airlines, Croatia Airlines, FlyDubai, Pegasus, Swiss Air, Turkish Airlines, Wizz Air and Qatar Airways) fly into North Macedonia’s main airport near Skopje.  Foreign carriers fly to Skopje from Vienna, Zurich, Geneva, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Belgrade, Dubai, Doha, and Istanbul, among others.  U.S. companies have bid for contracts in the field of air transportation services, airport equipment and construction, and air navigation, and control systems.

Web Resources

Public Enterprise for State Roads
Macedonian Railways Transport
TAV – Airports in North Macedonia


 

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