As AD Ports Group, an enabler of integrated trade, transport and logistics solutions, announced on Tuesday, the first phase of Tbilisi Intermodal Hub, Georgia’s first modern, bonded container and intermodal terminal, and a key logistics link in the Group’s emerging Central Asian transport strategy was inaugurated.
Irakli Kobakhidze, Prime Minister of Georgia, Levan Davitashvili, First Vice Prime Minister of Georgia, Ahmed bin Ali Al Sayegh, Minister of State in the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Ebrahim AlNuaimi, UAE Ambassador to Georgia, Giorgi Janjgava, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, the Georgian Ambassador to UAE, as well as Captain Mohamed Juma Al Shamisi, Managing Director and Group CEO of AD Ports Group, Jemal Inaishvili, Founder of Inveco LLC, and Abdulaziz Zayed Al Shamsi, Regional CEO – AD Ports Group attended the inauguration.
In the first phase of Tbilisi Intermodal Hub is Tbilisi Dry Port, an Inland Container Depot (ICD) that will handle container cargo arriving by rail and truck. There are plans to build additional container yards and truck parking, and a fourth railway spur, to transform it into a full-service import-and-export logistics hub for all of Central Asia, a fast-growing region that AD Ports Group is targeting as a strategic growth corridor by early 2026.
Then, Tbilisi Intermodal Hub will process many types of cargo (containerized vehicles, and forms of containerized bulk and break-bulk commodities such as minerals, ores, and fertilizers) in its second and third phases. This will make it an important supply chain of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, as well as an East-West crossroads for goods between China and Europe.
The first shipment of 30 containers, each carrying over 26 tonnes of cargo, via rail link from an MSC ship docked at Georgia’s Black Sea Port of Batumi, signified Tbilisi Intermodal Hub’s soft launch on 3rd May.
An inland extension of Batumi and the Port of Poti, Georgia’s key seaports, will make Tbilisi Intermodal Hub a vital logistics staging hub accelerating trade flows across the Caucasus region and Central Asia.
The Middle Corridor will become a viable, modern high-volume trade corridor linking China and Europe by overland route through Central Asia with the Group’s ports and maritime assets in Türkiye and Pakistan due to the Georgian intermodal logistics hub. They expect it to handle up to 1.9 million Twenty Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) of container cargo annually by 2040, as manufacturers seek to avoid longer seaborne routes.
NH Logistics GEO has been offering IOR Importer of Record and EOR Exporter of Record services since 2001 and is a market leader in Georgia and Eurasia, supporting many clients with their import/export shipments.
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