A truck scanner worth GEL 3.3 million (USD 1.5 million) has been installed at the Sadakhlo Border Crossing Point between Armenia and Georgia…

A truck scanner worth $1.5 million has been installed at the Sadakhlo Border Crossing Point between Armenia and Georgia. The scanner provides a reliable means of inspecting cargo ensuring the manifest verification, accurate tariff collection and identification of illegal goods, UNDP reported. 

The scanner has been provided through a European Union funded project implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and is part of a wider EU-supported initiative to further advance Integrated Border Management in the South Caucasus.

With the total budget of 4.3 million EUR, the EU/UNDP initiative helped the governments of Armenia and Georgia to tackle smuggling and trafficking, ease people’s movement at the border crossing point, equip and train customs officers and border guards, and promote professional cooperation between the border management agencies of the two countries.

The European Union and UNDP also assisted the Government of Georgia to prepare and endorse the Border Management Strategy of Georgia for 2014-2018.