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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).

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...

New service links Aktau, Turkmenbashi & Constanta ports

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) December 12, 2023 – ADY Container LLC is launching a new service connecting Kazakhstan’s Aktau and Turkmenbashi...

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...

Surprising decline in Georgia’s port cargo handling

Poti, Georgia (Ports Europe) May 31, 2023 – Georgian ports handled 3.5 million tonnes of cargo in the first quarter of 2023, which is -17.8% less than in...

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...

Batumi Oil Terminal increases traffic in 2022

Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) April 13, 2023 – Total volume of cargo transshipment in 2022 by Batumi Oil Terminal LLC and Batumi Seaport LLC was 7.6...

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...

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