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.
Protestors block Georgian port of Poti
Poti, Georgia (Ports Europe) December 4, 2024 – Anti-government protestors in the Black Sea port of Poti blocked an access road to the facility last...
Reference: Russian occupation of neighbours’ territory
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) November 14, 2024 – Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia has been involved in territorial disputes with...
Container terminal or Russian naval base in occupied Ochamchira?
Ochamchira, Georgia (Ports Europe) November 11, 2024 – The question is what is under construction in Ochamchira Black Sea port in Georgia’s breakaway...
CHOICE analysis: China in the Black Sea and with Anaklia port
Prague, Czech Republic (Ports Europe) November 10, 2024 – China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe (CHOICE), a multinational consortium of experts...
Container terminal in occupied Ochamchira, Georgia
Ochamchira, Georgia (Ports Europe) November 8, 2024 – The construction of the Black Sea Port Intermodal Container Terminal in Ochamchira is planned to be...
Varna-Batumi ferry line plan sinks
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) November 6, 2024 – The attempt to resume the ferry line between Bulgarian Black Sea port of Varna and Georgia’s Batumi using...
First ships in Georgia’s Anaklia port by 2029 – minister
Anaklia, Georgia (Ports Europe) November 5, 2024 – There are “no obstacles” to the implementation of Georgia’s Anaklia Black Sea deep-water port...
KazTransOil keeps investing in Batumi Oil Terminal
Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) October 25, 2024 – Georgia’s Black Sea Batumi Oil Terminal (BOT, 100% owned by Kazakhstan’s KazTransOil) has...
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...