The International Transport and Services Company Gebrüder Weiss extended the logistics service station in Tbilisi, Georgia, by about 13,000 square meters (approximately 140,000 square feet) in a move that will expand its capabilities in the Caucasus. “This expansion is our response to the increasing demand for transportation and logistical services in the region, which grows largely due to the increased trade between the European Union, Georgia and its neighbors Armenia and Azerbaijan,” explains Wolram Singer Weiss, the CEO of Gebrüder Weiss.
“This is the third time that we have expanded the logistics center since it opened twelve years ago. With this step, the first expansion in 2019, and the site’s connection to the rail network the following year, we now have a total of 142,000 square meters (most explains Alexander Kharlamov , Georgia’s rural director in Gabroub Weiss, in Tbilisi, where more than 177 employees provide a full range of logistical services to our customers in the region. “We use this expansion as an opportunity to increase our transportation services in the Caucasus region and intensify our cooperation with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Central Asia The other. This will benefit our major account, “Black Sea/CIS, in Gebrüder Weiss, adds. From 25 million euros (more than 27 million dollars) since its inception.
More than a decade ago, Gebrüder Weiss realized the unpopular economic capabilities that Georgia maintained and the geological importance of Central Asian countries when it invested for the first time in the region in 2012. As a result, the company chose to create its own location in Georgia. The Logistics Center at Tbilisi International Airport has since become a major center for the increasing exchange of commodities between Europe and Central Asia, and inside the Caucasus. Free trade agreements with the European Union and the European Economic Union have strengthened trade levels and made Georgia an important transit country.
Today, manufacturers in textiles, home commodities, high technology and cars use all Gebrüder Weiss-transport services and railways to air and marcharide, customs operations and logistics services. Over the past five years, Gebrüder Weiss Georgian has processed about 130,000 charges of about 470,000 tons.
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