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Feb 8, 2007 (newstodate): Inefficient airport infrastructures in Georgia has spelled stagnation for airfreight over the last years. But the situation is now being remedied.
A US report of trade with Georgia indicates that in 2004 3,575 tonnes of import airfreight was landed in Georgia. In 2005 the volume was 4,485 tonnes, and in the first 10 months of 2006 totals stood at 4,561 tonnes.
By contrast seafreight accounted for 1,168,091 tonnes in January-October, 2006, and rail cargo at 1,397,319 tonnes.
Georgia has a total of five airports, two of which are open to international traffic - Tbilisi International Airport and Batumi Airport.
Both airports are now at the end of major modernisation projects, promising relief to the situation.
Today only about 0.1 percent of all import cargo is arriving as airfreight.
A US report of trade with Georgia indicates that in 2004 3,575 tonnes of import airfreight was landed in Georgia. In 2005 the volume was 4,485 tonnes, and in the first 10 months of 2006 totals stood at 4,561 tonnes.
By contrast seafreight accounted for 1,168,091 tonnes in January-October, 2006, and rail cargo at 1,397,319 tonnes.
Georgia has a total of five airports, two of which are open to international traffic - Tbilisi International Airport and Batumi Airport.
Both airports are now at the end of major modernisation projects, promising relief to the situation.
Today only about 0.1 percent of all import cargo is arriving as airfreight.