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Georgia Ports Container Trade up 8.6% in FY 2025

[ August 7, 2025   //   Gary Burrows ]

The Georgia Ports Authority’s fiscal year 2025 was its second-busiest year on record, with container volume reaching 5.7 million twenty-foot-equivalent units, an 8.6 percent increase, or 400,000 TEUs compared to fiscal year 2024.

The growth shows continuing strength in Georgia’s logistics trajectory. The ports’ busiest year was fiscal year 2022, when GPA handled 5.76 million TEUs during the pandemic.

“Georgia Ports continues to grow U.S. East Coast market share and with the shifting trade patterns in Asia and India, that bodes well for our future,” said Griff Lynch, president and CEO of Georgia Ports.

Savannah’s volume grew at a 4.5 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for fiscal year-to-date 2025 compared to the year earlier, while the entire U.S. container port market experienced a 2.7 percent CAGR during the same period.

The Port of Savannah moved 410,400 TEUs in June. Georgia Ports averaged more than 475,000 TEUs per month in the fiscal year just ended, with March, April and May each topping 500,000 TEUs.

Georgia Ports’ Port of Brunswick handled 870,775 units of autos and heavy equipment in FY2025, which is flat compared to fiscal year 2024, which was an all-time record year.

GPA will start construction in the current fiscal year on the new US$100 million Colonels Island Berth 4, which is expected to open in 2027.

In the past 10 years, the ports authority has completed US$3.2 billion in infrastructure projects and plans to invest another US$4.5 billion over the next 10 years, to add five big ship berths in the next eight years: two big ship berths are being upgraded in Ocean Terminal and will be ready 2027-2028; and three berths are planned for Savannah Container Terminal from 2030-2034.

During fiscal year 2025, GPA approved US$472 million for new projects at Savannah and Brunswick:

• Savannah – Adding 1.5 million TEUS of annual capacity at Ocean Terminal, adding an overpass linking the terminal to Route 17 and designed to keep truck traffic from impacting local neighborhoods; and adding eight new ship-to-shore cranes.

• Brunswick – expanding roll-on, roll-off capacity at Brunswick, adding 122 acres of storage; doubled rail capacity on Colonels Island Southside from 150,000 autos to more than 340,000; and added a fourth ro-ro berth.

Tags: Georgia Ports Authority, Port of Brunswick, Port of Savannah