Construction of Anaklia Deep Sea Port kicks off
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Georgia is one step closer to creating a new, faster maritime corridor between China and Europe, helping to restore the historic Silk Road by building the Anaklia Deep Sea Port.
As the construction of Anaklia Deep Sea Port is now underway, Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili and other members of the Cabinet of Ministers joined the works today.
At the end of the final phase the Anaklia Deep Sea Port must be able to handle 100 million tonnes of cargo per year. Photo by Ministry of Economy's press office
Calling it Georgia’s largest project of the 21st century, Prime Minister Kvirikashvili said Anaklia Deep Sea Port will be the start of Georgia’s transformation from a transit country into a country of production, logistics and industrial development.
This is the place where Europe meets Asia… Georgia is being represented as a country of international cooperation, stability and peace. I want to once again congratulate you, the entirety of Georgia and all our friends, because this place today lays the foundation of a new Georgia”, Kvirikashvili said.
Anaklia Development Consortium will invest $2.5 billion and develop the port on a build, operate and transfer basis, allowing larger ships to enter Georgian waters for the first time, thus expanding the country’s export potential and ability to act as a transport corridor.
Anaklia Deep Sea Port is among the infrastructural projects that Georgia planned to implement to develop the Silk Road route. Photo by Agenda.ge.
The Anaklia Deep Sea Port development will be separated into nine phases. At the end of the final phase it must be able to handle 100 million tonnes of cargo per year.
Pre-construction works of Anaklia Deep Sea Port started in 2016, while the opening of the first phase of the port and receiving the ships in Anaklia is planned for 2021.
- Find out more about the Anaklia Deep Sea Port project in the article ‘Project of the Century: Georgia starts to build Anaklia Deep Sea Port’ by Mariam Papidze on Agenda.ge.
Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mikheil Janelidze and founder of Anaklia Development Consortium Mamuka Khazaradze met the diplomatic corps accredited to Georgia and introduced them to the development of the Anaklia Deep Sea Port project today.
Those who want to catch up on the development process of the Anaklia Deep Sea Port project – Georgia’s largest port on the coasts of the Black Sea - are now able to get all information at a newly opened information centre.
Anaklia Deep Sea Port will be built by 2020
"This is the project of the century” was how Georgia’s Prime Minister welcomed the start of the Anaklia Deep Sea Port project to create a new, faster maritime corridor between China and Europe and help restore the historic Silk Road.
Georgia has selected Anaklia Development Consortium to build and operate the new Anaklia Deep Sea Port in Georgia’s west.
Chinese corporation ZPMC will be involved in the construction of Georgia’s largest port Anaklia Deep Sea Port, on the shores of the Black Sea city of Anaklia, near Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia region.
From now on, students of Batumi State Maritime Academy, along with theoretical knowledge, will have the opportunity to receive practical experience as well. For the first time in the 90-year history of Georgia’s only maritime university, it has its own training vessel.
One of China’s largest companies, China Railway International Group, is interested in investing in Georgia’s Anaklia Deep Sea Port project, which is underway on the shores of the Black Sea city of Anaklia, near Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia region.
Georgia and Israel are discussing the possibility of transferring several Israeli enterprises to Georgia’s Black Sea town of Anaklia.
A leading British company, BuroHappold Engineering, will be responsible for developing a visionary master planning and development plan study for Georgia’s Black Sea town of Anaklia, which soon will be transformed into a modern, bustling city.
A cutter suction dredger ship, the Athena, has arrived in Anaklia to help in the implementation of the works being carried out.
The former Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development Giorgi Kobulia said the Anaklia Deep Sea Port project is “too difficult” for the Anaklia Development Consortium to implement. Kobulia spoke of the project during the recent talk-show at TV Pirveli.