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Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze meets AD Ports Group CEO Print Version

2025-01-27

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Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze met with Captain Mohamed Juma Al Shamisi, CEO of Abu Dhabi Ports Group.

The conversation in the meeting focused on the importance of developing the Middle Corridor's transport and logistics routes and the significance of the Tbilisi Dry Port project-implemented with AD Ports Group's investments-in this regard.

Tbilisi Dry Port is a modern intermodal logistic hub, a continuation of Batumi and Poti Ports, servicing and linking them to logistics sites. It was noted that the hub will start operating in 2025 to connect, via the Middle Corridor, Western Asian manufacturing centers to Eastern Europe's consumer markets by putting to work a network of both sea and dry ports of Georgia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Kazakhstan. The dry port, stretching 283,000 m2, is located 6 kilometers from Tbilisi Airport.

Abu Dhabi Ports Group owns 60% of Tbilisi Dry Port and is the main partner managing the new logistic hub. So far, the company has invested 16 million USD in the Tbilisi Dry Port project, an amount to increase as the project progresses.

In the meeting with the company's CEO, Irakli Kobakhidze expressed the Georgian Government's interest in expanding cooperation with the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, including on strategic logistics and transport projects.

Press Service of the Government Administration

 

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