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Coverage · South Caucasus

Black Sea network · structural stub

Georgian Black Sea ports

Batumi and Poti, the Georgian ports at the western end of the trans- Caspian corridor — two markers, no system record yet.

2 published markers 3 supply systems 1 operator

Assessed as of
2026-08
Last reviewed
2026-10-29

AssessmentModerate confidence

Context, not targeting. A system record names published markers and published operators and states dependencies at the level a published institution does. It carries no facility-level capacity, vulnerability, protection or repair detail; the schema has no field for any of it.

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Locator — land outline from Natural Earth 110m (public domain); 2 places this record names, at the coordinates the module already publishes. No routes, boundaries, control or activity are drawn.

What this system is

Batumi and Poti, the Georgian ports at the western end of the trans- Caspian corridor — two markers, no system record yet.

Confidence: Moderate As of 2026-08Reviewed 2026-10-29

Nodes

The published markers that carry this system value, by the module’s own priority. A note is the system record’s; a marker without one is a member by its own tag.

  • BatumiPort

    active publicly documented · as of 2026-06

  • PotiPort

    active publicly documented · as of 2026-06

Routes and operators

Supply systems running through it

  • The Middle Corridor — east–west trade transitGeneral trade · 8 nodes · 3 documented disruptions · named by the recordThe overland route between China and Europe that avoids both Russia and Iran, and which works in the places where it has actually been built.
  • Armenian external access — two borders open, two closedGeneral trade · 10 nodes · 6 documented disruptions · joined by its nodesA landlocked country whose shortest routes to the world have been shut for thirty years, and what that does to everything else.
  • Caspian energy export — the westward pipeline systemFuel imports · 5 nodes · 3 documented disruptions · joined by its nodesThe reason this small region has the attention of capitals that could not otherwise place it: oil and gas going west without crossing Russia or Iran.

Organisations that run it

  • Georgian RailwayInfrastructure operator · ActiveThe state railway that carries the Middle Corridor across the transit state — from the Azerbaijani border to Poti and Batumi on the Black Sea and on the Georgian section of the Baku–Tbilisi–Kars line toward Türkiye.

Transmission chains through this system

Each step carries its own basis grade — Confirmed, Plausible exposure, Unconfirmed scenario — and a chain can only weaken from left to right.

Watch questions bearing on it

Economic exposures it underlies

ExposureTransit corridors

What remains unknown

  • Structural stub. The ports' role is carried by the Middle Corridor record.

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Sensitivity: public-contextual Confidence: Moderate Sources: Eurasianet↗ · Reuters↗ Methodology Corrections

Assessed as of — 2026-08 Last reviewed — 2026-10-29