Black Sea gate-in
Container dwell after discharge, truck appointment honesty, and the lag between terminal release and the first inland door. We read gate prints against the inland booking, not against the shipping line’s circular.
Corridors
Ports, yards, and the East–West run
Performance is local. A dwell hour at Poti is not the same hour on a Tbilisi ring-road dock. This page is the ground we actually stand on.
Berth and city yards
Shorter terminal, tighter city streets. Performance here often hides in the hour a truck waits for a city slot after the vessel looks finished on paper.
The highway as a clock
Poti or Batumi to Tbilisi is a promise many carriers average well and keep poorly on the day. We split weather, weighbridge queues, and driver hours from dock congestion at the far end.
Ring-road docks
Cross-docks and retail DCs that absorb every delay the corridor created. Door calendars, hostler loops, and the night shift that inherits a polite morning figure.
Sarpi, Red Bridge, Sadakhlo
Queue time that never appears in a warehouse KPI. We only take this work when the operator actually owns the appointment or the broker relationship; we do not pretend to manage the crossing.
Ferry-linked inbound
When freight arrives via Aktau or Baku connections, the Georgian yard still pays for a slot that moved. We track the inland reaction, not the sea leg we cannot stand on.
Coverage
Georgia first
We work on sites we can reach from Tbilisi within a working day, or stay overnight at Poti and Batumi when the gate pattern needs a dawn start. Work outside Georgia is declined rather than stretched.