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In the Soviet era Tbilisi and Georgia were a part of centrally planned socialist economy.<br />

Transportation system, cooperation networks, trade links were mainly developed within<br />

internal Soviet market. And the country’s contacts with the rest of the world, including<br />

transportation infrastructure, were led through the Soviet Union. Political reasons and<br />

missing appropriate infrastructure not only stopped Georgia from the relations with<br />

partners from outside the USSR but, due to the supremacy of central institutions, also<br />

hindered bilateral contacts between the republics.<br />

As a result of the political changes in the region transportation channels across Northern<br />

Caucasus and Russia are closed.<br />

Presently Georgia and Tbilisi are re-establishing their traditional central role on the route<br />

from Asia to Europe. Not only does it require reconstructing economic and cultural links<br />

but it is also vitally important to invest in transportation sector. Investments in the sea<br />

harbours of Baku and Poti, the airport in Tbilisi and Baku, pipelines from Azerbaijan via<br />

Tbilisi to Turkey, new road and railway connections from Tbilisi to Turkey and Baku will<br />

integrate Georgia and Tbilisi into transit services and help rebuild natural cooperation<br />

bonds.

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