TBILISI, March 24 – Fewer transit trucks crossed Georgia in the first two months of 2026, and that meant less money flowing into the state budget from one of the country’s key overland trade routes, according to figures published Tuesday by Interpressnews.
The report said th number of trailers moving through the Georgian corridor fell by 2,262 in January-February 2026 compared with the same period last year. Budget revenue from those crossings also dropped by 791,882 GEL (292,000 USD).
More specifically, based on consolidated budget revenue data without consolidation, the treasury received 23.707 million GEL (8.73 million USD) from freight vehicle crossings in the first two months of this year. In the same period of 2025, the figure was 24.499 million GEL (8.66 million USD).
The same decline showed up in traffic numbers. According to the report, 67,736 trailers crossed Georgia’s corridor in January and February this year, compared with 69,998 in the same two-month period last year.
That matters in Georgia because the country promotes itself as a transit route linking Europe and Asia, as well as the Black Sea and the South Caucasus. Truck traffic through the corridor is one of the simplest ways to track how much overland cargo is actually moving through the country and how much direct fee income that movement brings to the budget.
In 2025, the treasury received 171 million GEL (63 million USD) from the passage of freight vehicles, and according to the report, about 489,390 trucks crossed the border on average over the year.
Georgia charges transit trailers a 350 lari road-use fee at the border. That tariff has been in force since June 20, 2022. Before that, drivers paid 200 lari.
