As Head of the Transport Corridor Research Center Paata Tsagareishvili states, the suspension of the Anaklia Port construction is most profitable for Russia. While the deep-port construction experiences suspension in Georgia, Putin's government is doing everything to develop the Taman port.
What will be the benefits Russia can receive from the Taman port?
''Russia has detected a risen number of containers in Batumi and Poti and increased the container capacity of the Port of Novorossiysk from 350,000 to 700,000. Simultaneously, it tries to install and infrastructure with a capacity of 1,5 thousand containers in the Taman port. Besides, Russia plans to install a Eurasia channel from Taman port to the Caspian Sea in parallel to the Volga-Don channel and to construct a new port lagoon along the Caspian Sea. The project will connect the Caspian and Black seas and create a center of the main load with which the entire flow of cargos from Asian will be automatically directed to the Taman port. It is a scheduled policy Russia follows. The Georgian government is doing its best to develop the Taman port, reach the desired depths, and ensure the attraction of global cargo flows in this way. It has already attracted billions to stand by the Taman port,'' Paata Tsagareishvili says.