Kazbegi customs checkpoint temporarily suspends operation due to heavy rainfall
The suspension of the works includes traffic of import and export goods and customs control procedures for individuals crossing the state border through the checkpoint. Photo: Revenue Service
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Heavy rainfall has caused a temporary suspension of the Kazbegi customs checkpoint in Georgia’s north, with the state of emergency affecting the wider region, the Georgian Revenue Service announced on Monday.
The state body noted all customs control procedures at the checkpoint had been suspended after the flooded Tergi and Devdoraki rivers in the north had damaged a section of the road of “international importance” connecting Georgia and Russia through the Caucasus mountains.
The suspension of the works includes traffic of import and export goods and customs control procedures for individuals crossing the state border through the checkpoint.
All employees and passengers present at the location have been transported to a secure area, the body said, adding the checkpoint would continue to operate at “full capacity” following repairs.
The Georgian Ministry of Finance on Friday released a statement rejecting "irresponsible and manipulative" reports by local media outlets that alleged use of the country’s transport corridor for delivering Russia's sanctioned goods to Europe.
Georgian customs authorities have the transit of cargo across the country’s economic borders “under control” and are in communication with their international partners to ensure an enforcing of sanctions imposed on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, Finance Minister Lasha Khutsishvili said on Wednesday.
More than 90 operations have been suspended by the Georgian customs service in the country on suspicion of violations of sanctions imposed by the international community against Russia due to its invasion of Ukraine, Lasha Khutsishvili, the Georgian Finance Minister said on Tuesday.
Levan Kakava, the Head of the Revenue Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, signed an agreement on Georgia's participation in the European Union Customs Programme on Saturday.
Rescuers of Georgia’s Emergency Management Service have evacuated dozens of people from Dusheti municipality in the country’s east, after the locality was hit by heavy rain and flooding on Sunday.
Professionals from Georgia’s Emergency Management Service on Monday discovered the body of a tourist amid rescue works underway in the flood-hit north-eastern mountainous Pshavi province.
Traffic on the Mtskheta-Stepantsminda-Larsi Road connecting Georgia and Russia through the Caucasus mountains has resumed following the flooding of the Tergi River due to heavy rainfalls in the region, the Roads Department of Georgia announced on Monday.
The Revenue Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia on Thursday dismissed reports by several opposition-minded TV channels on alleged problems in monitoring of international cargo shipments and provision of border crossing procedures at the Kazbegi checkpoint on the Russia-Georgia border in the north of Georgia.