BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 8. APM Terminals, the company, operating Georgia’s Poti Port is working closely with the Georgian Government on new expansion projects, Iain Rawlinson, Chief Commercial Officer at APM Terminals Poti, told Trend.
“We have already embarked on an expansion project in the Port Poti. We have broken ground on the renovation of the existing breakwater. The Port of Poti was founded in 1858, so the infrastructure is a significant part of our cost in maintaining the existing facility. This project will make sure that the breakwater will continue to be strong and big enough to protect the Port from the bad weather, particularly in winter,” Rawlinson said.
According to the chief commercial officer, another major investment is a project which is tied with the first one - the development of a new breakwater, and the construction of two new deep-water berths.
“Those will be births each 15 meters deep, which will be able to handle the biggest ships that come into the Black Sea today. That is pending the government’s approval right now,” he added.
As Rawlinson noted, APM Terminals is also working closely with the regional railway organizations to improve communications across the Caucasus and further.
“Talking about the Middle Corridor, it is a complex supply chain that railways and the sipping companies across the Black Sea and the Caspian use. 13 different parties are involved - from China-Kazakhstan border through Georgia's Poti. We work closely with the regional railway companies to manage and control the flow of cargo, so it goes efficiently and reliably,” he said.
APM Terminals is a port operating company headquartered in the Netherlands and is a unit of the Transport and Logistics division of the Danish Maersk shipping company.
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