Georgia to support ferry service with Russia

ITAR-TASS
12.03.2005, 19.32

YEREVAN, March 12 (Itar-Tass) — Georgian Prime Minister Zurab
Nogaideli said his government would give “every support” to a new ferry
service from the Russian port of Kavkaz to the Georgian port of Poti.

Speaking at the end of his two-day visit to Armenia on Saturday,
Nogaideli said, “In addition to a treaty we need concrete decisions
to make sure that the ferry is suitable and technical problems are
solved.”

He stressed that Georgia would seek to “attract Russian commercial
structures into the project” to make it “much more effective”.

Armenia, which does not have a common border with Russia, attaches
great significance to the ferry service between the port of Kavkaz
and Poti.