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National Geographic Magazine Launches in Georgia |
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The Radisson Wine Resort at Tsinandali |
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Silk Road Group Announces Visit from Donald Trump |
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Silk Road Group Supports Terracotta Army Project |
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Georgian Wine Institute launched in Tsinandali |
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Cold storage facility to be opened in Poti, Georgia |
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Georgia Investment Summit to take place in New York |
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John Fotiadis Architect PLLC awarded master plan and concept design of Trump Tower, Batumi, Georgia |
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President cut the ribbon at Radisson Blu Hotel, Batumi |
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Silk Road Group supports Piet Mondrian exhibition in Georgia |
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Radisson Blu Tbilisi Awarded Best New Hotel In Region |
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Silk Road Group offers trade support to SMEs jointly with BTA Bank and Imedi L International |
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Letter of Intent signed between Trump Organization and Silk Road Group on Georgia Development |
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Silk Road Group hosted Michael Cohen of Trump Organization |
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SRG is joining 2010 Worldwide Energy Conference in Washington |
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SRG helps moving containers from Iraq to Afghanistan |
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Radisson Blu Iveria had a successful start |
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SRG started transportation of A1 to Kandahar |
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SRG is supporting Exhibition of SALVADOR DALI |
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Final Countdown for Radisson BLU Iveria Hotel |
SRG helps moving containers from Iraq to Afghanistan
30 Apr 2010
Together with one of its major transportation partners, Silk Road Group (SRG) will help relocating military equipment from Iraq to Afghanistan as part of a critical military operation that was started in March earlier this year.
In trying to move 30,000 reinforcements into Afghanistan while reducing American forces in Iraq by 50,000, U.S. military forces are orchestrating one of the largest movements of troops and equipment since World War II. Thousands of people and billions of dollars’ worth of equipment, housing, fuel and food have to be moved in and out of both countries between now and an August deadline.
Lt. Gen. William G. Webster, the commander of the United States Third Army was quoted as saying “Hannibal trying to move over the Alps had a tremendous logistics burden, but it was nothing like the complexity we are dealing with now.”
The SRG operation will start with a first batch of about sixty containers in early May. Containers will be trucked north to Turkey and further to Poti in Georgia where they will join the route of containers coming by vessel to Poti for the Afghanistan direction. They move east through Georgia and Azerbaijan, by ship across the Caspian Sea to Kazakhstan, then south on the old Soviet rail lines of Uzbekistan into northern Afghanistan.
“We are fully aware of the importance of this operation and we are confident that we can contribute our share to its success,” says Alex Topuria, Board member of SRG and responsible for SRG’s transportation business.
SRG is a leading transportation and logistics as well as trading company in the Caucasus and Central Asian region and is involved in liquid and dry cargo deliveries for Afghanistan since early 2000s. It is currently moving about 1,000 container units per month.