Who draws the sheets
The Tbilisi drawing room
We are three people who learned logistics from dispatch desks and map tables, not from a product launch. The office sits on Vazha-Pshavela Avenue because that is where the city's westbound traffic and the ministries already meet.
Georgia sits on other people’s east–west haul. Goods come off the Caspian side, wait for the Black Sea, climb through the pass, and fan into yards that were never placed with that haul in mind. The country’s own wine, metal, and retail moves on the same roads and argues with the transit. That tangle is our subject.
The office began after Nino left the Batumi desk with a stack of runs that could not be explained by the printed corridor map the ministry hung in the hall. She asked Giorgi, who was already keeping unofficial gate counts for a Kutaisi yard, and Tamar, who could still letter a plate without a machine. Route Vectorhub Analytics is the name on the door. The work is still a table, a pencil, and a week of other people’s waybills.
We take commissions from haulage firms, distributors, and warehouse operators. We decline work that wants a flattering picture of a network the trucks do not run. We also decline to install tracking boxes or to rewrite someone else’s tariff. Those are neighbouring trades. Ours is to draw what moved, and to sit with the room until the sheet has been read.
The drawing room is at Level 12, 25 Vazha-Pshavela Avenue, Tbilisi 0186. Telephone +995 32 555 9810. Field days are arranged after a written briefing; we do not arrive at a yard unannounced.
The people at the table
Nino Kvaratskhelia
Twelve years on a Batumi forwarding desk before she began drawing other people's runs. She still reads a CMR the way some people read a timetable.
Giorgi Maisuradze
Stands at gates. Counts what leaves. His notebooks are messy and, in a dispute about dwell time, more trusted than the wall chart.
Tamar Beridze
Trained in cartographic drafting. She decides what a plate can hold before the lettering fights the roads.