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    Caucasus-Poti ferry line resumes operation after 13-year break

    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    March 23, 2005 Wednesday

    The Caucasus-Poti ferry line resumed operation after a 13-year break.
    The first ferry with grain supply for Armenia went on this route on
    Wednesday, the press service of the Russian Transport Ministry said.

    Only two trial voyages will be made so far, the press service said.
    The ferry Annenkov with 18 wagons went on the first voyage. The ferry
    will come back with manganese ore supply in five days. The second
    voyage with grain supply is scheduled for the beginning of next week.

    The agreement on the opening of the ferry line was signed in Tbilisi
    on January 10, 2005.

    The opening of the ferry communication across the Black Sea and the
    Sea of Azov is very important, as the railway communication by land
    between Russia and Georgia has been suspended for the last 12 years.
    The railway communication has been resumed in August 1992 after the
    armed conflict in Abkhazia has started. As a result supplies for
    Armenia and Azerbaijan were made on motorways bypassing Georgia that
    made the way much longer and the cost of supply much higher. Not only
    Georgia and Russia but also Armenia, Azerbaijan and Central Asian
    states will use the ferry line.
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