Batumi Oil Terminal

Alegratrans is the marketing and logistics arm of Batumi Oil Terminal, an activity that has been in operation for 120 years. The Terminal is located near the seaport of Batumi, on the Georgian Black Sea coast, in the autonomous Republic of Ajaria.

In 1883 a loan from Baron Alphonse Rothschild helped two prominent Russian oil producers to complete the project of their life building a railway road from Baku to the Black Sea port of Batumi. The new Baku - Batumi railway road almost overnight turned Batumi into one of the world's most important oil ports.

Batumi Oil Terminal still has a few reservoirs built in late XIX century by Nobel.

In 1882, Marcus Samuel, the founding father of Shell, sent the first tanker from England to Batumi, where it was loaded with kerosene, and then made a revolutionary Suez crossing to deliver the first cargo to Singapore.

Alegratrans offers transshipment services for liquid hydrocarbon cargoes exported from the Caspian region. The product range includes 15 different oil products. The terminalнs transshipment capacity is currently 12 million tons per annum and the reservoir capacity is over 500 thousand tons. Unloading is done at estacadas with a total capacity of 52,000 tons per day. Vessel loading is performed at three berths and one offshore loading buoy. The parent company of Alegratrans privatized Batumi Oil Terminal in 1999. Investment obligations of over $32 million were fully completed in 2002. The reservoir park was refurbished and increased. The CBM was modernized to load 130,000 dwt tankers. A new laboratory and a boiler house were constructed. Two 3,200 hp tugboats were purchased. A new state of the art estacada and the first LPG terminal on the Georgian Black Sea coast were initiated.

As a result transshipment volumes grew from 3.3 million tons in 1998 to 8.6 million tons in 2002. Since 1999 the parent company of Alegratrans and Batumi Oil Terminal invested over $60 million in Ajaria, providing jobs to over 3,000 locals. Other investment projects include 60 MW Kobuleti Power Plant, Batumitex Textile Factory, new art center, sports palace, and kindergarten.