Georgia
Georgia in country located in Transcaucasia, bordering on the Black Sea, north of Turkey and Armenia. It regained independence when the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991. In August 2008 Russia unilaterally recognized the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia (parts of Georgia), and Russian military forces remain in those regions. The country would like to join the European Union. Its leading ports are Batumi and Poti. Also, the country has made efforts to build a deep sea port at Anaklia, although these efforts are currently stalled.
Batumi Sea Port receives Ecoports certificate
Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) October 19, 2024 – Batumi Sea Port LLC, part of KazTransOil, has obtained a certification of compliance with the...
Ferries are endangered species in the Black Sea
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) October 5, 2024 – The once booming ferryboat services market in the Black Sea is almost extinct. Out of more than 10...
Russian navy escapes from Novorossiysk, but where to?
Gelendzhik, Russia (Ports Europe) September 18, 2024 – The Russian Black Sea navy is on the run again, leaving the country’s largest port of...
Georgia, China sign Middle Corridor MoU
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) September 17, 2024 – Last Friday, Georgia and China signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop the...
CASCA+ transport corridor discussed again
Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) September 11, 2024 – A protocol for expanding international logistics cooperation, activating the CASCA+ transport...
New JV to manage Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway line in Georgia
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) August 27, 2024 – Azerbaijan Railways (ADY) and Georgia’s Marabda-Kartsakhi Railway announced on August 23 the creation...
Georgia’s ports handled 4.23 mln tonnes of cargo in Q2 2024
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) August 20, 2024 – Georgia’s Black Sea ports handled 4.23 million tonnes of cargo in the second quarter of the year, which...
Confusion about Russian naval base in occupied Georgian port
Ochamchira, Georgia (Ports Europe) August 18, 2024 – Satellite images analysed by Bellingcat, an independent investigative collective of researchers,...
Mamuka Khazaradze: “Anaklia becomes a Chinese port”
Anaklia, Georgia (Ports Europe) August 7, 2024 – Georgia’s Black Sea Deep Water Port of Anaklia was to be the largest infrastructural investment...
Jan de Nul to construct maritime infrastructure of Anaklia Port
Anaklia, Georgia (Ports Europe) August 6, 2024 – Belgian company Jan de Nul won the tender for the construction of the maritime infrastructure of Georgia’s...
Anaklia: ADC lost, China and Russia won, Georgia misses golden opportunity
Anaklia, Georgia (Ports Europe) July 30, 2024 – The long-running legal saga about Georgia’s first Black Sea deep-water port project in Anaklia between...
1 mln tonnes of Kazakh oil products exported via Batumi in H1’24
Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) July 28, 2024 – KazTransOil (a subsidiary of Kazakhstan’s national oil and gas company KazMunaiGaz) in the first half of...
Made by China: Georgia’s port, airport, roads and railways
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) July 26, 2024—After acquiring 49% of Georgia’s future deep-water Black Sea port of Anaklia, China wants to construct the...
Bulgaria and Georgia to resume railway ferry line across Black Sea
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) July 15, 2024 – Bulgaria and Georgia will resume the railway ferry line between the two countries that was stopped two years...
Kazakhstan increases rail exports of fuel oil via Georgian ports
Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) June 25, 2024 – In January-May 2024, Kazakhstan increased rail exports of fuel oil through Georgian ports to 413,200 tons...
South Korean official visits APM Terminals Poti
Poti, Georgia (Ports Europe) June 25, 2024 – Tong Op Kim, Chargé d’affaires of the Office of the Embassy of South Korea in Tbilisi, Georgia, has...
Chornomorsk-Batumi ferry service to restart despite war
Chornomorsk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) June 20, 2024 – In a bold move, Ukraine and Georgia decided to resume on July 9 the ferry service between their Black Sea...
U.S. ambassador to Georgia comments on Anaklia port project
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) June 19, 2024 – The U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia, has published the text of an interview given by Robin L. Dunnigan,...
Georgia minister comments on Poti, Anaklia ports
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) June 18, 2024 – Speaking after a government session, Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of...
Georgia’s Anaklia port given to China
Anaklia, Georgia (Ports Europe) May 30, 2024 – A consortium of majority state-owned China Communication and Construction Company (CCCC) Ltd., one of the...