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The Poti Sea Port is a major seaport and harbor off the eastern Black Sea coast at the mouth of the Rioni River in Poti, Georgia. It is home to APM Terminals Poti.

Ukrainian prime minister attends Tbilisi Belt & Road Forum

Tbilisi, Georgia (PortSEurope) December 4, 2017 – Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman has attended the Tbilisi Belt & Road Forum and...

APM Terminals manager questions need for new Anaklia port

Tbilisi, Georgia (PortS Europe) December 2, 2017 – A director of APM Terminals Poti Port, has been quoted as saying that the new Anaklia port is not...

Venice port President Pino Musolino attends Tbilisi Belt & Road Forum

Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) December 1, 2017 – Venice port President Pino Musolino has attended the Tbilisi Belt & Road Forum to strengthen...

World Bank team presents initial findings on improving freight transit of the Caucasus Transit Corridor

Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) November 19, 2017 – The World Bank team has presented the initial findings of its study on improving freight transit and...

Batumi and Poti ports join Lapis Lazuli transit corridor

Batumi, Georgia (PortSEurope) November 19, 2017 – Georgia is to join the Lapis Lazuli Corridor, a transport route connecting Europe and Asia by road,...

APM Terminals adds tugboat capacity at Poti port, Georgia

Poti, Georgia (PortSEurope) November 16, 2017 – APM Terminals Poti has added two Azimuth Stern-Drive (ASD) tugboats from the Maersk Transport &...

APL adds four new port calls to Asia-Europe services

Singapore (Ports Europe) October 7, 2017 – APL has announced the addition of Durrës (Albania) and Thessaloniki (Greece) as new ports of call to its...

Georgian ports cargo traffic declines 1.2% y/y in H1 2017

Poti, Georgia (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Georgian ports handled 8.3 million tonnes of cargo in the first half of 2017, down 1.2% on the year, the...

Washington hosts Trans Caspian Forum

Washington, United States (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – The second annual Trans-Caspian Forum – East-West Trade and Transit Corridor has taken...

Georgia, Iran & Azerbaijan to launch south-west transport corridor

Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – The heads of Georgian, Iranian and Azerbaijani railways have discussed launching a new South-West...

China looks to purchase 75% of Poti Free Industrial Zone shares

Poti, Georgia (Ports Europe) February 20, 2017 – CEFC China Energy Company Limited has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to discuss acquiring...

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