Anaklia Projects Presented at Astana Global Economic Forum

Executive Director of ‘Anaklia City,’ Ms. Keti Bochorishvili, presented the Anaklia project in Astana in the framework of the Astana Economic Forum 2018.

The AEF (Astana Economic Forum), which is held annually in Kazakhstan, this year was attended by over 8,000 international delegates, including world business leaders, leading scientists, economists and politicians, as well as representatives of multinational and regional companies.

As invited speaker for the panel “The New Central Asian Trade Agenda – Strengthening the Role of the Private Sector,” the CEO of Anaklia City shared the vision of using the Special Economic Zones as platforms to enhance the connectivity and to spur economic activity along the transportation corridors (CAREC and Belt & Road) in our region.

Ms. Bochorishvili shared with the audience the details of the Anaklia Deep Sea Port and Anaklia Special Economic Zone as upcoming state-of-the-art infrastructure to boost the competitiveness of Georgia as a primary transportation gateway for the Caucasus and Central Asian countries for trade with the Western world. In addition, she emphasized the importance of inter-governmental and private sector cooperation to improve the capacity of the Middle Corridor in the frames of EU-China trade.

Alongside the Director of ‘Anaklia City’, other AEF speakers this year included the former French President François Hollande, Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, and the UN’s 8th General Secretary Ban Ki-moon.

The AEF is a crucial platform for business projects, Anaklia City and Port, for boosting the country’s potential of economic opportunities and for making new partners.

The Global Challenges Summit 2018 at Astana's forum saw such topics discussed as economics and stability, digitalization and urbanization, global security and cultural changes.

The Astana Economic Forum was founded in 2008. Over the last 10 years, the forum has hosted 50,000 delegates from 150 countries, including 30 well-known politicians and 20 Nobel laureates.