The USS Donald Cook, a guided missile destroyer, will make a port call in Batumi, on Georgia’s Black Sea coast, next week, the U.S. embassy in Tbilisi said on August 31.

Several joint training events with the Georgian Coast Guard and the Georgian Navy, involving boarding ships and at-sea exercises, are planned.

The USS Donald Cook, which was involved in Tomahawk strikes on Iraq, is also equipped with two vertical launching systems for Standard missiles, Harpoon missile launchers and torpedoes.

Another U.S. destroyer, USS Sullivans, made a port call in Batumi in late April 2007.