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Port of Savannah clearing record volumes despite vessel backlog

The Georgia Ports Authority was not thrown off course by the summer backlog of container ships awaiting berths at the Port of Savannah. The GPA reported Tuesday that August was its busiest month ever. 

GPA said it handled 575,513 twenty-foot equivalent units in August — an increase of 18.5%, or 89,918 TEUs, over the same month last year. Counting the July volume of 530,800 TEUs, the Port of Savannah’s performance made for the fastest period in which the port has cleared the 1 million-TEU mark in...

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Georgia Ports ends roller-coaster year on upside

Georgia Ports Authority Executive Director Griff Lynch described 2020 as a year of “the low of lows and high of highs.”

Those highs helped propel the GPA to move more than 4.68 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in 2020, a 1.8% increase over the year before. 

“When we think about where we were in the July time frame, I never would have expected or anticipated that we would come out positive year-over-year for the annual number,” Lynch said. “In October we broke the all-time record. Then...

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Georgia Ports Authority proposes inland port box expansion

A photograph of containers at a rail yard.

The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) plans to add 22% more container storage capacity at its inland distribution terminal in the northwest Georgia town of Chatsworth as it gears up for an expected increase in export traffic from Chatsworth to the docks at Savannah, GPA Executive Director Griff Lynch said Friday.

In an interview with FreightWaves on Friday, Lynch said the proposed $450,000 initiative, which will be voted on by the GPA board at its November meeting, will add 13 stacks of twenty-foot...

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Port of Savannah on track for record September

September isn’t in the books yet, but the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) already is figuring it has been a record month.

The GPA issued a press release Monday in which it said the Port of Savannah was on track to achieve a monthly record for September by moving more than 400,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs). This follows all-time record volumes in August.

“We frankly didn’t anticipate growth for the months of August and September, but we are gratified by the loyalty of our customers and the...

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Savannah volume down just 1% and total tonnage a record

A small dip can be a big win during a pandemic, when global supply chain disruptions have taken huge bites out of volumes at U.S. ports.

So the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) announcement Monday that fiscal-year volume at the Port of Savannah was down by less than 1% compared to the previous year wasn’t bad news. 

The Port of Savannah handled 4.44 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in fiscal year 2020, which ended June 30.

And the GPA found good news where it could. It said that despite...

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Port of Savannah volume down 9.7%

The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) reported this week that while year-over-year container volume was down, May’s figures actually were better than expected.

The Port of Savannah’s Garden City Terminal moved 337,359 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in May, a decrease of 9.7% or 36,000 TEUs compared to the same month a year ago. 

Executive Director Griff Lynch credited what the GPA called “an unshaken commitment to customer service” for the better-than-expected performance in May.

“I would like to...

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Canceled calls signal ‘two really tough months’ for Georgia ports

The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) is battening down for a May with 37 blanked sailings. In a normal May, there are no canceled calls at Georgia’s ports.

“On the blanked sailings side, we had 20 in April. That was about 12% of all vessel calls. May is a big month. May is looking like 37, which would be 20 to 22% of our vessel calls if that shakes out. And then June comes in around the 15% mark right now, but that could change,” said GPA Executive Director Griff Lynch.

“There are going to be two...

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