LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR TBILISI ... - LED

local transit import export
1995 1.2 2.0 0.3 0.9
1996 1.4 2.1 0.7 0.5
1997 1.6 3.1 1.5 0.8
1998 1.2 5.5 1.3 0.4
1999 1.4 6.8 0.6 0.5
2000 1.7 8.4 0.6 0.6
2001 1.8 10.1 0.7 0.4
2002 2.0 11.6 0.8 0.5
2003 2.4 12.1 1.1 0.8
2004 2.0 10.7 1.6 0.9
2005 (6-months) 0.8 6.1 0.9 0.4
Years
Road transportation volume of cargo
(in millions of tons)
Rail cargo volume of cargo
( in millions of tons)
1998 15.0 8.5
1999 16.0 9.5
2000 18.5 11.5
2001 20.0 13.1
2002 22.5 14.9
2003 24 16.6
2004 15.4
2006 (months) 8.3
Civil Aviation
Number of passengers Number of connections Volume of cargo ( in tons)
International domestic International domestic International domestic
1995 4236 43 3794 1699
2000 27001 6004 6044 1526 7530
2003 314867 3419 7014 1130 4907
2004 39501 7386 8542 1476 5848
2005 536418 10742 9650 1612 6274
At present 4 national and 13 foreign regular airlines, including Austrian airlines, British
Airlines, Lufthansa and Turkish airlines are operating in Georgia. Direct air connections
are available from Tbilisi to Vienna, Zurich, Athens, Paris, Prague, Berlin, Munich,
Frankfurt, Istanbul, Moscow, St. Petersburg. In 2005, Georgia processed 260,000 air
passengers and 1.6 thousand tons of air cargo. 98% of air transportation is performed by
Tbilisi International Airport.
In 1994 Georgia became a member of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO),
and in 2005 a member of the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC).