Revenue service clarifies transit of uranium concentrate through Georgia after media reports
A 787-tonne shipment of natural uranium concentrate from Kazatomprom company arrived at the railway station of the southeastern customs checkpoint of Gardabani on September 6, the body acknowledged. Photo: revenue service
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Georgia's revenue service on Friday responded to media reports on nuclear material being transported across the country last month by explaining a railway freight shipment of products by a Kazakh company had transited through the country on its destination in Canada.
A 787-tonne shipment of natural uranium concentrate from Kazatomprom company arrived at the railway station of the southeastern customs checkpoint of Gardabani on September 6, the body acknowledged.
The railway carriages were loaded with natural uranium concentrate, which arrived at the station from Azerbaijan and was transiting from Kazakhstan to Canada”, the service said.
It further explained the freight cargo had been put through transit procedure “in accordance with the law” and placed in one of the customs warehouses for further transportation.
The statement also said “all types of goods” at customs checkpoints of the country were "subject to strict monitoring, including the process of transporting goods subject to radioactive control".
Georgian Railway on Thursday dismissed reports by opposition-minded TV channels on an alleged presence of railway freight subject to international sanctions on Russia in Georgia’s western city of Batumi as “fake”.
The revenue service of the ministry of finance of Georgia on Monday responded to media reports alleging an import to Georgia of thousands of tonnes of petrol from a company sanctioned under the international community’s measures against Russia, rejecting the claims as “disinformation”.
A freight ship, sailing under the Russian flag, entered the Black Sea Poti port on Friday and is not subject to international sanctions, the Georgian revenue service announced on Saturday.
The Georgian revenue service on Thursday announced that the railway wagons loaded with 1,972 tons of fuel oil had entered the Gardabani customs checkpoint on Monday and had been screened, confirming that the international sanctions, imposed on Russia and Belarus since the start of the war in Ukraine, did not apply to either the shipment or the owner company.
The Revenue Service of the Georgian Finance Ministry on Sunday responded to media reports alleging an import of sanctioned goods to Georgia from a Russian company [under sanctions imposed by the international community against Russia] and elucidated that the sanctions did not refer to the company, its owners or shipment.