Azeri oil makes up 29 pct of Georgian railways’ crude transshipment in 2011
Azerbaijani oil made up 29 percent of the entire oil transshipment by Georgian railways in 2011, the railway administration told Azerbaijan’s Trend news agency via e-mail.
Georgian railways transported 997,063 tons of Azerbaijani crude oil and 2.038 million tons of Azerbaijani oil products in 2011. The total amount of oil and oil products transshipped by Georgian Railway was 10.46 million tons in 2011.
In total, Georgian Railway transshipped 3.528 million tons of Azerbaijani cargo last year.
The main Azerbaijani commodities transported by the neighboring South Caucasus republic’s railways in 2011 are iron and manganese ore (219,240 tons), construction materials (90,313 tons), grain (17,462 tons), and ferrous metals (3,267 tons). The remaining Azerbaijani cargos transshipped by Georgian Railway made up 162.540 million tons.
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