Ukraine has resumed ferry service with Georgia, operating two sailings from the Chornomorsk port to the Georgian port of Batumi for the first time since the start of the full-scale invasion.
“Two flights were made on March 18 and 26 from the port of Chornomorsk to the port of Batumi, and the third flight is planned for next week,” said Tymofiy Murakhovsky, Director of Commercial and Logistics at Ukrzaliznytsia JSC, at a meeting on the Restoration of the Ukraine-Georgia Ferry Service within the TTM Corridor.
According to him, the project is being implemented with the participation of the shipping company Ukrferry (Odesa) and UZ Cargo Poland, a subsidiary of Ukrzaliznytsia, in Warsaw. According to Murakhovsky, the first voyages in March were carried out in a mode of information silence. He urged businesses to become more actively involved in the direction. As you know, since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale aggression in February 2022, there has been no maritime traffic between Ukraine and Georgia.
The shipping company Ukrferry announced the resumption of the Chornomorsk-Batumi ferry service on July 9, 2024, but this did not happen.
Shipping company Ukrferry (Odesa) will resume ferry service Chornomorsk-Batumi on July 9, according to the schedule on the company’s website on Wednesday.
According to the schedule, the Kaunas ferry is scheduled to depart from the Chornomorsk port on July 9 at 20:00, and arrive in Batumi 60 hours later, on July 12 at 9:00.
It is assumed that flights will depart from the ports on a weekly basis.
It is noted that the Kaunas ferry is a 250-passenger cargo and passenger vessel built in 1989 in Germany, is under Lloyd’s classification supervision, the length of the vessel is over 190 m, the width is 28 m.
The company warns that the dates/time of departure and arrival of the vessel may be changed both before and during the voyage.
Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale aggression in February 2022, there has been no maritime connection between Ukraine and Georgia.
