Georgia Maritime Transport Profile 2026
GEORGIA
MARITIME TRANSPORT PROFILE
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Maritime assets
Port area in 2025
Ships built by country of building, annual
Merchant fleet by country of beneficial ownership, annual
Ship recycling
Trade - Navigation total
Water transport employment
Activity
Container port throughput
Port call and performance statistics
Trade mode share
Port Activity
Trade openness index
Seafarer supply
Top 10 Freight Transport Expenditure in USD (Import)
Source: UNCTAD & World Bank. (n.d.). TransportCosts. UN Trade & Development Data Hub - Trade-and-Transport Dataset, Annual, 2016 Onward. Retrieved May 1, 2025, from https://unctadstat.unctad.org/datacentre/dataviewer/US.TransportCosts
Top 10 Freight transport work in thousand ton-km (Import)
Source: UNCTAD & World Bank. (n.d.). TransportCosts. UN Trade & Development Data Hub - Trade-and-Transport Dataset, Annual, 2016 Onward. Retrieved May 1, 2025, from https://unctadstat.unctad.org/datacentre/dataviewer/US.TransportCosts
Top 10 Freight Transport Expenditure in USD (Export)
Source: UNCTAD & World Bank. (n.d.). TransportCosts. UN Trade & Development Data Hub - Trade-and-Transport Dataset, Annual, 2016 Onward. Retrieved May 1, 2025, from https://unctadstat.unctad.org/datacentre/dataviewer/US.TransportCosts
Top 10 Freight transport work in thousand ton-km (Export)
Source: UNCTAD & World Bank. (n.d.). TransportCosts. UN Trade & Development Data Hub - Trade-and-Transport Dataset, Annual, 2016 Onward. Retrieved May 1, 2025, from https://unctadstat.unctad.org/datacentre/dataviewer/US.TransportCosts
Connectivity and performance
LPI
Liner shipping connectivity index
Port liner shipping connectivity index
Bilateral liner shipping connectivity index
Trade cost
Container port performance index
Remoteness index
Sustainable freight transport index
Percent of firms identifying transport as a major constraint
Shipping emissions
EDGAR GHG 2025
Transport energy consumption
EDGAR AP 8.1
GAINS emissions
Adaptation and resilience
Hazard exposure
Average annual loss
Port risk
Maritime-related disasters
Investment on ports
Development financing
Private participation in infrastructure
Policy Targets
Biofuels
| Georgia's 2030 Climate Change Strategy | 2021 | increase the share of energy from renewable sources, including biofuels in the total consumed fuel in transport with up to 10% by 2030 | 2030 |
Policy Measures
| 2023-2030 National Strategy of Transport and Logistics of Georgia | Shipping improvement - General | Port development at Anaklia and Poti Harbour. Implementation of flexible regulatory monitoring of port sector activities. Digitization of maritime services. | 2023 |
| 2023-2030 National Strategy of Transport and Logistics of Georgia | Shipping port infrastructure improvements | ÿ Discussing the possibility of developing empty container loading terminals - cooperation with shipping lines. Implementation of flexible regulatory monitoring of port sector activities. | 2023 |
| Georgia's 2030 Climate Change Strategy | Biofuels | increase the share of energy from renewable sources, including biofuels in the total consumed fuel in transport with up to 10% by 2030 | 2021 |
| Regional Development Program 2018-2021 | Budget/ identification of rail projects | Investment in coming years will concentrate on the one hand on modernisation of existing railway infrastructure and construction of a new railway, and on the other hand on the construction of railway access to Anaklia Deep Sea port. | 2018 |
| Regional Development Program 2018-2021 | Shipping port infrastructure improvements | The design of the port will bypass competing ports in the region with superior connections to existing rail and road infrastructure, equipment and communications infrastructure, berthing for 65,000 TEU vessels, flexibility for multiple cargo and vessel types, and introduction of environmental practice. | 2018 |
| Social-economic Development Strategy of Georgia 2020 | Freight intermodality - General | multimodal and intermodal shipping operations will be facilitated | 2014 |
| Social-economic Development Strategy of Georgia 2020 | Shipping port infrastructure improvements | construction of a deep-water port in Anaklia | 2014 |