Port of Poti

🇬🇪 Georgia

Black Sea · Container Terminal

UN/LOCODE
GEPTI
Country
🇬🇪 Georgia
Port Type
Container Terminal
Ocean Region
Black Sea
Latitude
42.1500° N
Longitude
41.6700° E

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Joint War Committee listing

Not listed

Poti is not inside any Joint War Committee listed area (circular JWLA-035, 16 September 2026).

Georgia's own territorial waters are excluded from the listed Black Sea, but the Black Sea beyond them is listed: a passage that leaves Georgia's territorial waters enters listed waters.

Source: Joint War Committee circular JWLA-035, 16 September 2026 (LMA/IUA), JWC Listed Areas for hull war, piracy, terrorism and related perils.

Regional Risk Context — Black Sea

Poti in Georgia sits in the most volatile maritime environment in the world. Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Black Sea has been a theatre of active naval conflict — mine strikes, missile attacks on port infrastructure, and interference with commercial shipping are a daily operational reality. The Joint War Committee has designated extensive portions of the basin as a listed area, and war risk premiums have escalated dramatically. Russia's Black Sea Fleet has attacked Ukrainian port infrastructure and commercial grain vessels with cruise missiles and drones; the UN-brokered Black Sea Grain Initiative collapse left operators without a formal de-confliction mechanism. Access through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles is controlled by Turkey under the Montreux Convention.

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Sea Distances

Routed sea distances from Poti to the principal global hubs, computed by ArcNautical's routing engine — around land and through the canals a ship actually uses, not great-circle.

Port State Control Context

Georgia is a multi-MoU jurisdiction (its port states participate in more than one regional PSC programme). Vessel-level detention probability for calls at Poti is computed by ArcNautical's scoring engine using flag performance, vessel age, deficiency history, and ownership opacity rather than a regional aggregate.

Vessel Mix

No port calls were observed at Poti between 29 Apr 2026 and 5 Aug 2026. This reflects the reach of the terrestrial AIS network behind this page — coverage is densest in Northwest Europe and thins elsewhere — and is not a statement about traffic at Poti. The feed has delivered no positions since 5 Aug 2026, so these figures will not change until it resumes.

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