port-of-savannah

GPA sees busiest May for total tons, TEUs

The Port of Savannah handled 3 million tons of cargo in May, an increase of 8.9% or 247,671 tons compared the same month a year ago. Total cargo crossing all terminals reached 3.22 million tons. "Our May numbers reflect strong performances in breakbulk and containerized trade, showing growing global demand for both retail goods and manufacturing inputs," said GPA Executive Director Griff Lynch. Last month was GPA's busiest May ever ... [+]

Four More Neo-Panamax Cranes Arrive Port of Savannah

Four additional Neo-Panamax cranes sailed into the Port of Savannah last week, with a 50- by 100-foot American flag across the side. "To see these massive new cranes arrive flying the stars and stripes makes us proud to be part of an operation that provides jobs and opportunity for so many," ... [+]

Port of Savannah achieves 32% growth in October

 Container trade at the Port of Savannah grew by 32% in October, with Garden City Terminal moving 410,000 twenty-foot equivalent container units, an increase of nearly 100,000 TEUs. It was the first time in the port's history that it topped 400,000 TEUs in a single month. For the fiscal year to ... [+]

Savannah serves largest vessel ever to call on East Coast

The CMA CGM Theodore Roosevelt, the largest container ship ever to serve the U.S. East Coast at 14,414 twenty-foot equivalent container units (TEUs), called the Port of Savannah today. Working the vessel with seven cranes at the 1,200-acre Garden City Terminal, the Port of Savannah is expected to move 4,500 containers ... [+]

Port of Savannah Receives Huge COSCO Development

The Port of Savannah marked by welcoming the COSCO Development  - the largest containership to ever to call on the U.S. East Coast, on May 12. More than 5,500 containers crossed the GPA's docks from the single vessel, a record for Georgia's ports. Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, port officials and ... [+]

Four New Panamax cranes arrive at the Port of Savannah

Four new Super Post Panamax ship-to-shore cranes arrived at Garden City Terminal on December 5, bringing the Port of Savannah's total to 26, more than any other terminal in the U.S. "For customers, it means the capacity to move up to a thousand containers per hour across a single dock ... [+]

Port of Savannah marks record October

Georgia Ports Authority Executive Director Griff Lynch reported to the GPA board Monday fiscal year to date growth of 4% for loaded container traffic, moving 1.01 million TEUs, an increase of 40,545 TEUs compared to the same period in 2015. In October, the GPA handled 251,566 loaded TEUs, an increase ... [+]

Savannah Container Traffic Sees Highest-ever September

Marking the seventh consecutive month of record container throughput, the Port of Savannah handled 317,411 TEUs in September, a 7.3% or 21,713-TEU increase over the same month last year. "We are pleasantly surprised to see volumes remaining above last year's double digit growth," said Georgia Ports Authority Executive Director Curtis Foltz. ... [+]

Georgia Hooks Trident Seafoods

Trident Seafoods just opened its $40 million production and distribution center in Carrollton, Ga. Some 50,000 tons of finished products annually will be produced for the U.S. market from the center. Founded in 1973 by Chuck Bundrant with two fishermen partners and a single vessel, the family-owned Trident Seafoods is now ... [+]