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Gas tariffs will be set by how much you burn — and the new rates land in December
Parliament passed the enabling law on 29 October by 75 votes to five. It does not set any price: that is GNERC's job, and the commission has until the current tariff period…
October inflation was 5.9% — and housing rents rose 12.8%
Transport did most of the work, at 21.9%. But the line that matters to a landlord or a tenant is actual rentals for housing, up 12.8% on the year while core inflation ran at 4.0%.
Two-thirds of company borrowing in Georgia is in foreign currency
Georgian banks held ₾75.43 billion in loans at the end of June. Households borrow mostly in lari; companies, including the ones building the flats, mostly do not.
Anaklia switched to a landlord model, and still has no named operator
The state will build the infrastructure and lease the terminals out. Dredging and breakwater work are running at once, the first vessel is targeted for 2029, and no terminal…
Kakheti took in 182,210 tonnes of grapes, and 99% graded medium or high
The 2026 rtveli ran at 13,000 to 14,000 tonnes a day across 22 collection points. Behind the volume sits a new grading system and a round of price protests a month earlier.
A $250 million ADB loan will take freight out of central Tbilisi
The Asian Development Bank approved Lots 4 and 5 of the Tbilisi Bypass Project in July 2026. Construction bids closed in August, and the stated purpose is to stop heavy vehicles…
The Krtsanisi scoping opinion decides what 633 hectares gets assessed for
A development concept for state land on both banks of the Mtkvari went to Georgia's National Environmental Agency in August. The public comment period has closed, and a campaign…
Work permits are compulsory now, and the tour-guide quota is zero
Since 1 March 2026 foreign nationals working in Georgia need a permit — employees, freelancers and company directors alike. The annual quota for tour guides, taxi drivers and…
Tbilisi airport is being rebuilt for ten million passengers a year
TAV Georgia is spending $150 million on the terminal and the airfield between 2026 and 2028, which would take rated capacity from five million passengers to ten.
A smaller contractor can now count a subcontractor's track record in state tenders
Changes to Georgia's procurement rules add framework agreements and electronic catalogues, and let a bidder combine its own experience with a subcontractor's to meet a tender's…
A US court confirmed the $383 million Namakhvani award against Georgia
A cancelled hydropower project from 2021 has turned into a confirmed foreign judgment, with interest still running. It is a useful case study in what cancelling a permitted…
The 2027 draft budget puts ₾8.4 billion into capital projects
Roads, the metro, a port and an airport runway all have named lines in the Finance Ministry's draft. Parliament still has to pass it, but the list tells you where the state…
Three of the World Bank-funded road sections run through Kakheti
Georgia signed a USD 372 million loan from the IBRD in June for the Trans-Caspian Transport Corridor connectivity project, inside a package the Ministry of Finance put at roughly…
Anaklia is dredging now, and the operating date is 2029
Georgia's first deep-sea port has moved from announcements to machinery. Deputy Economy Minister Tamar Ioseliani said in early September that two dredging vessels are at work…
Wine exports are flat, and Russia still takes 63.5% of the value
Georgia exported USD 188.73 million of wine made from fresh grapes in the first nine months of 2026, against USD 189.878 million in the same period of 2025 — a fall of USD 1.147…
The rate stays at 8.25%, and growth is now forecast at 7.2%
On 21 October 2026 the National Bank of Georgia's Monetary Policy Committee left the refinancing rate at 8.25%, where it has sat since a quarter-point rise on 6 May. The same…
Exports grew 19.6% and imports only 5.3% in nine months
Georgian goods exports reached $6.15 billion in January to September 2026, up 19.6% on the same nine months of 2025, while imports rose 5.3% to $14.38 billion. Total trade…
The headline held at 5.6% while transport went to 18.7%
Georgia's annual inflation was 5.6% in September 2026, exactly where it stood in August, with monthly inflation at 0.4% in both months. The stillness is in the total only.…
Monthly growth slowed from 8.6% in June to 6.3% in August
Georgia's estimated monthly GDP grew 6.3% year on year in August 2026, after 8.0% in July, 8.6% in June and 6.4% in May, on figures from the National Statistics Office compiled by…
Flats went on sale at Expo Georgia before a permit was issued
OC Media reported on 26 October 2026 that the developer Cityzen plans a residential and commercial complex of 12 to 32 storeys on the 139,244-square-metre Expo Georgia site in…
The second Tbilisi airport has a capacity figure but still no tender
OC Media reported in July 2026 that the government's planned new international airport near the Vaziani military base is still without an announced tender, even as $150 million is…
Seven billion dollars of transport spending, and one target: 30%
Economy Minister Mariam Kvrivishvili told the Second Trans-Caspian Transport Corridor and Connectivity Investors Forum that Georgia will invest USD 7 billion in transport,…
Two dredgers and a breakwater: Anaklia is building toward 2029
The Anaklia deep sea port has moved into active construction. Two dredging vessels, the Tristao Da Cunha and the trailing suction hopper dredger Al-Idrisi, are deepening the…
Tbilisi airport is being doubled, after a year in which it ran over capacity
TAV Georgia is investing USD 150 million to raise Tbilisi International Airport's annual capacity from about 5 million passengers to 10 million, with the work running from 2026 to…
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