Oil Shipments from Georgia’s Batumi Port Drop 51 pct in 2018

Oil and oil-related shipments from Georgia’s Black Sea port of Batumi fell 51.2 percent in 2018 from a year earlier, an official at a KazMunaiGas-operated terminal at the port said on Thursday.Some crude oil was re-routed to the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline and to the Caspian Pipeline Consortium las