Tbilisi decided to terminate the contract for the supply of metro cars from Russia

The contract of the Tbilisi City Hall with the Metrovagonmash company will be terminated due to sanctions. This is stated in a message published on the website of the city administration.

“Georgia is applying international financial sanctions . Consequently, the Tbilisi City Hall does not intend to cooperate with the company that fell under the sanctions, and the contract with Metrovagonmash will be terminated,” the message says.

In 2021, Metrovagonmash won a tender for the supply of 40 new cars for the Tbilisi Metro, the City Hall reported.

RBC sent a request to the press services of Transmashholding and Metrovagonmash.

On May 19, Metrovagonmash came under US sanctions . In addition to the company, the list includes individuals, such as human rights commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova and the former HEAD of Polyus Pavel Grachev, as well as some Russian universities, including the Russian State University of Oil and Gas . THEM. Gubkin and Russian State Geological Prospecting University. S. Ordzhonikidze.

On February 1, 2023, Vice Mayor of Tbilisi Irakli Khmaladze announced that the mayor's office had decided not to terminate the contract with Metrovagonmash. “Taking into account the fact that we could not find an alternative supplier of wagons at the price that suits us, and the transition to the next stages of the tender would increase the purchase price by 30–35%, we tried to complete negotiations with an existing supplier,” he explained. He.

The agreement will be amended in agreement with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) so that the interests of the Georgian side "are maximally insured," the official said at the time.