Translation Bureau in Samtredia

A translation bureau for Samtredia - TARGMANEBI's service for a town where nobody stays for long. Samtredia's haulage companies run to Turkey, Europe and Central Asia and every route comes with a package of documents; thousands of people fly from Kutaisi airport every day and some discover on the last day that a certificate is untranslated; at the railway station the cargo and its paperwork have to arrive together. For this town "in two or three working days" is often too late, so orders from Samtredia have an urgent queue of their own.

At the same time Samtredia is an ordinary Imeretian town - with families whose members work in Europe, students, pensioners, and the Samtredia market where foreign goods are traded on foreign paperwork. The scheme is the same for both rhythms: a photo or file from Samtredia, translation and certification in Tbilisi, paper back by courier - or, where needed, straight to the airport.

Cargo, route, customs - hauliers' documents

International haulage is a chain of documents that follows the cargo from the warehouse through customs to the consignee. For Samtredia's haulage companies we translate:

In cargo documents one wrong figure - a weight, a pallet count, a code - means standing at customs, so the invoice and the waybill are double-checked digit by digit. Customs normally accept them with a translation certified by the bureau stamp, which is faster than a notary. Regular hauliers have an invoice and CMR template with us - for each new route only the variable data is filled in and the document is ready within hours.

Drivers on international routes

Drivers from Samtredia work the roads of Turkey, Europe and Kazakhstan, and many have taken jobs with European transport companies in Poland, Lithuania and Germany. Each case has its own list of documents: for a route, translations of the driving licence, the ADR certificate and the assignment papers; for employment, the licence categories, a service certificate, a medical certificate, a criminal record certificate and the professional competence certificate in the employer's language, with an apostille and notarization. The foreign employment contract and salary certificate are translated back into Georgian for a Georgian bank.

I fly tomorrow - the urgent travel package

Proximity to Kutaisi airport creates one particular situation in Samtredia: someone discovers the day before departure that an embassy, a university or an employer has asked for an extra certificate, or that a child's consent has not been translated. The process then runs like this: you send a photo and call; if the document needs the bureau stamp or notarization, we prepare it the same day on the urgent queue and the courier brings it to Samtredia or straight to the airport; if an apostille is needed, we will tell you honestly whether it can be done in time - the timing of an apostille is not ours to control and we will not give you false hope. In many cases the recipient accepts the electronic version, with the paper following later.

Another airport case is a foreign passenger who needs a document on arrival in or departure from Kutaisi: a lost passport certificate for a consulate, a medical certificate for fitness to fly, a police report for an insurer. We prepare such a document in the passenger's language the same day and send it electronically - paper is rarely needed here.

The market, the warehouses and small trade

Samtredia's market and warehouses form one of western Georgia's trading hubs, where Turkish, Chinese and European goods are traded on foreign paperwork. A small trader needs the invoice and certificate translated for customs, a contract with a foreign supplier, a Georgian version of the product label and instructions for the customer, and incoming claims and warranty conditions in both directions. Such documents rarely need certification and are prepared quickly.

Families, students, pensioners

Beyond the logistics, Samtredia is like the rest of Imereti - a certificate for an embassy in its language for a visa, a school certificate for a university, a power of attorney from a child in Europe, a consent for a child to travel, a Russian work record book for a grandfather's pension. There is one difference: because of the airport, people in Samtredia often have to travel at short notice, and the urgent queue we keep for freight works for family papers too.

Samtredia's railway station creates a flow of its own: wagon documents, rail waybills and cargo handover acts are often drawn up in Russian, while papers for transit freight are in English or Turkish. Such documents have to be in Georgian before the cargo is accepted at the station, and the other way round, so they too go on the urgent queue.

Languages in orders from Samtredia

Because of the logistics, Turkish, Russian and English are everyday languages in Samtredia; for drivers' employment in Europe, Polish, German and Czech; for the market, Chinese and Ukrainian. On family documents the picture is Imeretian: Italian, Greek, Spanish. French, Arabic and Dutch are rare from Samtredia and mostly tied to transit freight.

A process on Samtredia's rhythm

Price and the urgent queue

Standard turnaround is the same price in Samtredia as in Tbilisi. The urgent queue has its own stated surcharge, applied only at your request - invoices and waybills are prepared the same day anyway, with no surcharge. A driver's package with notarization takes one to two days, an apostilled family document depends on the document type. Work with haulage companies runs under a contract: templates, one invoice at the end of the month, one manager. The other party to the contract is TARGMANEBI's owner, the sole trader Mariam Zumadze (ID 30601010853); even on the urgent queue, an inaccuracy of ours is corrected free of charge and the same day.

Frequently asked questions - translation in Samtredia

Translation bureau in the other cities of Imereti

Samtredia's urgent queue is available across Imereti, but each town has its own profile - industry in Zestaponi, mines in Chiatura, the spa in Tskaltubo. Choose your city.