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Georgian port Batumi increases container transfers

Business Materials 1 February 2012 15:23 (UTC +04:00)

Georgia, Tbilisi, Feb 1/ Trend N. Kirtzkhalia /

The total volume of transferred cargo in 2011 through oil, rail-ferry, container and dry cargo terminals of Batumi port was about 7.6 million tons, the Ministry of Finance and Economy of Adjara reported on Wednesday.

In particular, the turnover of dry cargo terminal of Batumi sea port was more than 1.5 million tons. This is 288,940 tons more than in 2010.

Oil terminal of the port transferred 5.3 million tons of goods and the Batumi international container terminal transferred 710,420 tons. This is 203,530 tons more than in 2010.

Container terminal transferred 45,442 containers, which is 2.7 times more than in 2010.

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