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).
Shanghai ACE Investment & Development looks at Batumi port trade
Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) April 13, 2023 – Director General Batumi Seaport LLC, Ulan Tleugali, and Chairman of the Board of Shanghai ACE Investment...
KazTransOil in Georgia and Abu Dhabi Ports in talks
Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) April 12, 2023 – The Georgian subsidiary of KazTransOil (KTO) and Abu Dhabi Ports have discussed a cooperation based...
Georgia cargo figures recover in 2022
Tbilisi, Georgia (PortSEurope) March 6, 2023 – Georgia cargo figures recovered in 2022 reported the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of...
Batumi port hosts delegation from Uzbekistan
Batumi, Georgia (PortSEurope) March 1, 2023 – A delegation from the Republic of Uzbekistan, headed by the Deputy Minister of Transport, visited Batumi...
Georgian ports handled 12.8% more cargo and 18.9% more containers in 2022
Poti, Georgia (PortSEurope) February 20, 2023 – Georgia’s two Black Sea ports of Poti and Batumi processed 12.4 million tonnes of cargo in 2022, which...
Batumi Oil Terminal handled 82,500 tons of oil from Tengiz oilfield in January 2023
Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) February 8, 2023 – The Batumi Oil Terminal handled 82,500 tons of oil from the Tengiz oilfield in Kazakhstan in January...
TengizChevrOil to export more oil via Georgia’s Batumi port
Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) January 26, 2023 – Kazakhstan’s TengizChevrOil (TCO) plans to boost its crude oil exports via Georgia’s Black...
Georgia to retain 51% stake in “new” Anaklia deep sea port
Tibilisi, Georgia (PortSEurope) December 13, 2022 – An announcement by Georgia’s government says that the country is to retain 51% stake in...
Swedish ambassador visits Port of Batumi
Batumi, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) November 7, 2022 – On October 31, 2022, the Ambassador of Sweden to Georgia, Ultrik Tidestrum, visited Batumi Sea Port...
Port of Baku and EU cooperate on “Green Port Concept”
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) December 5, 2022 – The Port of Baku and EU cooperate on the “Support for the implementation of the Green Port...
Batumi International Container Terminal welcomes COSCO’s TBX1 service
Batumi, Georgia (PortSEurope) November 16, 2022 – Batumi International Container Terminal (BICT)has welcomed the inaugural vessel call of Diamond...
Port of Batumi: Meeting with the Second Secretary of the U.S. Consulate
Batumi, Georgia (PortSEurope) November 7, 2022 – As part of Program for US Export Control and Related Border Security Program in Georgia, yesterday,...
Port of Batumi to export oil for Tengizchevroil, Kazakhstan
Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) September 20, 2022 – The Black Sea port of Batumi will export oil from Tengizchevroil (TCO). TCO is the operator of...
Georgian seaports increase cargo traffic in Jan-Jun 2022
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) September 12, 2022 – Georgian seaports increase cargo traffic in Jan-Jun 2022, reaching 6.3 million tons (mt). This...
Port of Constanta receives intermodal fertiliser from Uzbekistan
Constanța, Romania (Ports Europe) September 5, 2022 – The Port of Constanta has received intermodal fertiliser from Uzbekistan via a co-ordinated...
Armenia to launch Poti-Kavkaz twice weekly train-ferry link by end-August
Poti, Georgia (PortSEurope) August 15, 2022 – Landlocked Armenia plans to launch the long delayed twice weekly train-ferry service from the Georgia’s port...
Batumi welcomes new Asia-Europe multimodal service
Batumi International Container Terminal (BICT), International Container Terminal Services, Inc.’s (ICTSI) business unit in Georgia, recently welcomed ADY...