Batumi
Batumi is a port in Southwest Georgia and a main transportation trade point in the Black Sea basin. Batumi, with its large port and commercial centre, is also the last stop of the Transcaucasian railroad and the Baku oil pipeline. It is situated some 20 kilometres from the Turkish border. The port is managed by KazTransOil JSC, a subsidiary of Kazakhstan’s national oil and gas company JSC NC KazMunaiGaz. The port takes part in many transport projects and corridors, being a participant of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR), the Eurasian transport corridor TRACECA and the Association of ports of the Black and Azov Seas (BASPA).
Georgia, Ukraine join EU’s Connecting Europe Days event
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) April 8, 2024 – Representatives from Georgia and Ukraine joined the European Union’s Connecting Europe Days 2024...
New rates for Batumi/Poti transport to Turkmenbashi
Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (Ports Europe) April 2, 2024 – Transport and Logistics Centre of Turkmenistan (TULM) JSC has introduced special preferential...
AD Ports acquired a majority stake in Tbilisi Dry Port
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) March 23, 2024 – Port and logistics operator AD Ports Group (ADP, Abu Dhabi, UAE) has acquired a 60% stake in Tbilisi Dry...
“Single window” for documents in Georgian ports
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) March 6, 2024 – Georgia’s Parliament is discussing the introduction of a “single window” mechanism in the country’s...
First KazAzot ammonia exported via Georgia’s Batumi port
Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) March 5, 2024 – For the first time, KazAzot exported its ammonium nitrate through Georgia’s Black Sea port of Batumi....
Ports of Baku, Batumi, Aktau, Kuryk and Turkmenbashi visit Valencia
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 3, 2024 – Aiming at enhancing the safety, resilience, and sustainability of supply chains between Asia and Europe,...
50,000 tonnes of Kazakh ammonium nitrate to be exported via Aktau-Hovsan-Batumi ports
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) February 21, 2024 – After exporting KazAzot’s ammonium nitrate (3,000 tonnes) through the Caspian Sea port of Aktau in...
China State Railway Group visits Port of Batumi
Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) December 8, 2023 – A delegation from the China State Railway Group Co, Ltd. has visited the Port of Batumi. The purpose of...
UK Ambassador to Georgia visited the Batumi Seaport
Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) November 21, 2023 – The UK Ambassador to Georgia Mark Clayton has visited Batumi Seaport, the Black Sea port in South...
Cargo keeps declining in Georgian ports in Q2 2023
Poti, Georgia (Ports Europe) September 11, 2023 – The Georgian Black Sea ports of Poti and Batumi handled more than 3.5 million tonnes of cargo in Q2 2023,...
Hamburg to support Georgia’s National Maritime Single Window Initiative
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) September 6, 2023 – HPC Hamburg Port Consulting (HPC) will provide comprehensive IT management services for the...
Russian cruise ship leaves Batumi port after protests
Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) August 2, 2023 – The Russian cruise ship Astoria Grande has left the Georgian Black Sea port of Batumi following local...
Georgia hosts Uzbek delegation
Tbilisi, Georgia (PortSEurope) July 19, 2023 – The Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has welcomed a visit of Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla...
Georgia, Kazakhstan increase mutual trade, plan rail, port investment
Tbilisi, Georgia (PortSEurope) June 26, 2023 – The Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, Alikhan Smailov, has been on an official visit to Georgia, where he was...
First pilot transport of cargo by semi-trailer along the TRACECA corridor
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) June 20, 2023 – The first pilot transport of cargo by semi-trailer along the TRACECA corridor has taken place as the...
Armenia tests container ship line via Georgia to Russia
Yerevan, Armenia (Ports Europe) June 2, 2023 – Armenia, desperate to establish a regular combined rail and sea cargo route to sanctions-hit Russia, is...
German ambassador visits Batumi Seaport
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) May 2, 2023 – Ulan Tleugali, General Director of Batumi Seaport LLC, has met with Peter Fischer, Ambassador of the...