In 2022, 333 cold storage facilities were active in Georgia, most of them were located in Shida Kartli region (61.9%), - according to the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat).
Accoridng to the document, active cold storage facilities are also located in Kakheti region (13.2%), Tbilisi (8.7%), Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region (4.5%), Adjara (3.3%), Kvemo Kartli region (3.3%), Imereti region (3%), Mtskheta-Mtianeti region (0.9%), Guria region (0.6%), and Samtskhe-Javakheti (0.6%).
As of the repeort, 70.3% of cold storage facilities use loans from where the loans are taken for the purchasing fixed capital (including both purchase new equipment or improve the old ones) (53.4%) and 34.7 for the working capital.
Most of cold storage facilities are fully equipped with modern technologies (54.7),42.6 is partly equipped and 2.7 is not equipped with modern technologies at all.
According to the results of the survey, the average daily load of cameras (percentage of total leads) was 53.7% in January, 51% in February, 44.5% in March and 42.1% in April, In May – 54.8%, in Juny – 53.9%, in July – 51.5%, in August – 55.7%, 52% in September, 56.8% in October, 58.3% in November and 53.2% in December.
