The total number of active elevators in Georgia in the I quarter of 2025 were 30 and most of hem were located in Kvemo Kartli (30.0 percent) region, while 16.7 percent of active elevators were ocated in Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region, 16.7 percent in Kakheti region, 13.3 percent in Imereti region, 10.0 percent in Shida Kartli region, 10 ercent in Tbilisi and 3.3 percent in Guria region, - according to the preliminary data from the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat).
In the I quarter of 2025, the service was provided to 20 customers. The number of producers and resellers, from whom the product were purchased for resale, was 39 persons, while the average monthly number of persons employed in cold storage facilities equaled 381.
In total 104.9 thousand tons of products were stored in elevators during the 1Q, 42.3 percent of which was Soybean meal and 36.4 percent wheat. The share of products
purchased by the elevators for resale in the total amount of products stored in the elevators was 73.4 percent at the same period.
Total amount of products sold by the elevators during the I quarter of 2025 amounted to 58.3 thousand tones (total value – 63.9 million GEL), 44.0 percent of which was imported production and 46.5 percent was local (own produced) products.
The biggest share among own production, in terms of volume as well as value, had wheat flour, which constituted to 77.0 percent of total own production sold by the elevators at the same period.
According to survey results, average daily load per storage (out of total capacity of storages in percentage) amounted to 48.4 percent in Januray, 49.5 percent in February and 44.9 percent in March.
