Yesterday, the Georgian Minister of Economy and Development Levan Davitashvili, announced that the Selection of the private partner for the management of the port project in the deep waters of Anaklia has come to an end with the Presentation of the proposal made by the Chinese consortium formed by China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) and by China Harbour Investment Pte. Ltd (Singapore). Specifying whereas the qualification requirements had also been met by the terminal operator Terminal Investment Limited (TiL) which is part of the Mediterranean Shipping Company shipping group (MSC), the minister recalled that the Chinese consortium and the Swiss-Luxembourg had until 20 May to submit their technical, commercial and financial proposal and stated that, even though during the period it was carried out an intense communication activity with both the subjects, it was finally the only Chinese consortium to submit a proposal.

Davitashvili announced that in the coming days clarified the details of the proposal received and then the announced the winner of the tender and negotiations will begin to the Partnership Agreement and the concession agreement. The aim is to establish a joint venture in which state ownership will be 51% of the capital and 49% of the private sector.

The minister recalled that at the same time it is already A tender was held for the construction of the port following the of which three proposals were received ( of 18 March 2024). Coming soon," Davitashvili pointed out We will also have the winning company of this tender and soon We will start the construction of the maritime infrastructure that will will last several years,

For the implementation of the first phase of the Construction of the port is expected to involve an investment of about 600 million euros. million dollars to build infrastructure capable of handle an annual container traffic of 600 thousand TEUs (7.8 million tons of cargo).

Recall that the plan to build the port of Anaklia is has been going on for some time and, before suffering a setback at the beginning of 2020 with the termination of the contract with Anaklia Development Consortium for failure to comply with obligations, the management of the port had been assigned to the company U.S. terminal operator SSA Marine of the Carrix group ( of 30 June 2017). It is also necessary to highlight the Singular outcome of the new management assignment procedure of the new Georgian port, launched in 2022, which has been awarded to a consortium of two engineering companies, CCCC and China Harbour Investment, which is owned by China's China Harbour Engineering Co. (CHEC) which is part of the same group CCCC, which also operate in the field of construction of port infrastructures, but not in their management.