MOSCOW (Dow Jones)--Georgia's largest oil port, Batumi, on the Black Sea coast is continuing oil shipments as planned, a Batumi Sea Port Ltd. official said Tuesday.
"Volumes are being transshipped as planned," Mogens Hansen, executive chairman of Batumi Sea Port, said.
Friday, Russia and Georgia entered into an open conflict over the breakaway republic of South Ossetia, sparking concerns it could threaten the alternative routes BP PLC (BP) had started to use to replace the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, which was interrupted last week due to a fire.
The terminal has an overall throughput capacity of 15 million metric tons a year, or around 300,000 barrels a day.
Batumi last year shipped 190,000 barrels of crude a day from Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. The crude is shipped to the port by rail.