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    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    TASS
    January 10, 2005 Monday 10:57 AM Eastern Time

    Russia, Georgia to launch railway ferry service (adds)

    By Eka Mekuzla

    TBILISI


    Georgia and Russia have agreed to launch railway ferry service
    between the Georgian port of Poti and the Russian port of Kavkaz.

    Georgian Economic Development Minister Aleksi Aleksishvili and
    Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin signed three relevant
    documents in Tbilisi on Monday.

    Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, who attended the signing ceremony, said
    "The agreements and the launching of ferry service between the ports
    of Poti and Kavkaz will create positive tendencies in the development
    of trade relations between Georgia and Russia."

    The documents cover ferry service, carriage rules, and temporary
    ferry operation rules. "The temporary ferry operation rules will be
    in force till February, when railway carriage member-countries are to
    hold a meeting on the ferry service," Levitin said.

    The Poti-Kavkaz ferry service will also be available to Armenia,
    Azerbaijan, and Central Asian countries.

    The ferry will make its first trip in late January. At first it will
    run once in three days and transport 25 railway carriages.

    The launching of the ferry service is very important since there has
    been no railway communication between Russia and Georgia in the last
    12 years. It was suspended in August 1992 after a military conflict
    had broken out in the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia.
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