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Routing cargo through the Port of Savannah can save shippers more than US$1,000 per container to key inland markets compared with West Coast gateways, according to a study by Georgia Tech researchers.
The analysis found that Savannah’s advantage stems from shorter inland transport distances and more consistent supply chain performance, offsetting longer ocean transit times from Asia. The study evaluated end-to-end costs and reliability for shipments moving from 10 Asian ports ...
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Port activity in Georgia now supports nearly 651,000 full- and part-time jobs across the Peach State, according to an economic impact study by the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. The statewide number has grown by 41,770 jobs or 7 percent compared to fiscal year 2023, the period covered ...
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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 ...
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Belgium-based Aertssen Logistics has established a U.S. footprint with an international logistics site near the Port of Savannah.The equipment processing center in Rincon, Georgia, 14 miles from the Port of Savannah’s Garden City Terminal, will serve the machinery, agriculture, equipment and construction sectors moving cargo through the Georgia Ports Authority.Aertssen ...
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Garden City Terminal at the Port of Savannah handled 49,115 containers by rail in August (approximately 89,000 TEUs), an increase of 6% over the same month last year. Intermodal cargo represented 21.6% of total containers, an uptick in that ratio of roughly 7% compared to August 2022.“With our Mason Mega ...
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The Port of Savannah received four Super Post-Panamax ship-to-shore cranes on Aug. 24, upgrading the crane fleet to 34 machines at Garden City Terminal after four older cranes are retired and recycled.“Along with the completion of our project to improve Berth 1, these cranes will help deliver faster turn times ...
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In the latest information from logistics data provider PIERS, the Georgia Ports Authority now handles one out of every 8.8 loaded twenty-foot equivalent container units in the U.S., its highest national market share ever.The Port of Savannah moved 11.4 percent of the nation’s loaded international containers for Fiscal Year 2023 ...
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The Port of Savannah’s loaded container exports grew 21% in January. The nation’s busiest port for U.S. goods handled 110,305 TEUs of exports, an increase of 19,419 TEUs.Compared to pre-pandemic numbers, the Port of Savannah’s January trade of 421,714 TEUs in total cargo showed 11.7% improvement over January 2020, in ...
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The Port of Savannah moved 464,883 TEUs in November, a decrease of 6.2% or 30,866 TEUs compared to the same month last year. This marks a 28% increase over three years. That rate of growth is well above the Georgia Ports Authority’s pre-pandemic expansion, which averaged 4 to 5% annually.“Container ...
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The Georgia Ports Authority handled 552,800 TEUs in October, for an increase of 9.6% (48,460 TEUs) compared to the same month last year.
“Customers continue to bring new or expanding business to the Port of Savannah, drawn by our global connectivity and the supply chain network that links Savannah to major ...
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