The U.S. guided missile destroyer, John L. Hall, arrived in Georgia’s Black Sea port of Poti on February 25.

Training exercises with the Georgian coast guard are planned during the U.S. warship’s week-long stay, which will also include port call in Batumi, according to Georgian officials.

It is the latest in series of port calls by the U.S. warships in the Georgian ports, which take place once or twice in recent years. However, number of such port calls, not counting those U.S. navy ships which delivered humanitarian aid, increased in October-December 2008, after the August war; although only one such port call was made in 2009.