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Armenia-Bound cargoes arrive at georgian port of Batumi in normal regime

06.04.2011, 01:53
rmenia-bound cargoes arrive at the Georgian port of Batumi on the Black Sea coast in the normal regime, Gagik Aghajanian, the executive director of one of the largest Armenian Apaven forwarding companies, told ARKA. The port was closed today after a radi
YEREVAN, April 5. / ARKA /. Armenia-bound cargoes arrive at the Georgian port of Batumi on the Black Sea coast in the normal regime, Gagik Aghajanian, the executive director of one of the largest  Armenian Apaven forwarding companies, told ARKA. The port was closed today after a radioactive substance was found there.

According to Georgian Rustavi-2 TV station, the port was closed  and its personnel evacuated after the substance with high radiation level was found in scrap metal freight in a railway carriage. It has already been tested by manual dosimeters and removed. According to preliminary data, it was  cesium-137, which was often used in military and measuring devices in Soviet times. The port was said to have resumed  operation partly.

Aghajanian said the operation of the port is expected to resume fully in several hours. Vahe Davtian, head of the South Caucasus Railways company’s press department, said  the Russian-run company has no cars now in Batumi and that all cargo is arriving through another Georgian port of Poti. He said Poti will be closed for two days due to bad weather conditions.

Armenia’s only land conduit to  Russia and Europe goes through Georgia. Cargo arrives in Batumi and Poti and then is shipped  to Armenia by railways and trucks.  -0-