Georgia Port Authority

Port of Brunswick sets auto, machinery handling record

The Port of Brunswick, Ga,, now the busiest in the U.S. for vehicles and heavy equipment, handled an all-time record of 91,360 units of roll-on/roll-off cargo in March, up 18% or 14,125 units, compared to the same month last year.

“More manufacturers are making Colonel’s Island a main hub for the global trade of autos and machinery,” said Georgia Ports Authority president and CEO Griff Lynch. “Brunswick’s central location in the fast-growing U.S. Southeast market and unmatched capacity to take...

https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/ports-terminals/port-of-brunswick-sets-auto-machinery-handling-record/

16,828 TEU OOCL Iris sets new Port of Savannah size record

The OOCL Iris became the largest capacity vessel to ever call the Port of Savannah, when it arrived at Garden City Terminal Tuesday, Feb. 25.

With a maximum capacity of 16,828 twenty-foot equivalent container units, the OOCL Iris is 1,204 feet long and 167 feet wide. The CMA CGM Marco Polo held the previous maximum capacity record at the Port of Savannah, at 16,022 TEUs.

The Port of Savannah will perform more than 2,800 container moves on and off the Iris, mostly 40-foot containers equaling just...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/16828-teu-oocl-iris-sets-new-port-of-savannah-size-record/

Quarterly volumes up at Georgia ports despite September decline

Large cranes help unload an ocean vessel of its containers.

Fiscal year first-quarter volumes at Georgia Ports Authority rose 9.6% compared with the first quarter of 2022 despite a 7.6% decline in September volumes.

Georgia’s ports handled more than 1.5 million twenty-foot equivalent units between July and September, GPA said Thursday. GPA’s fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30.

But September volumes fell 7.6% to 436,279 TEUs as Hurricane Ian led GPA to suspend vessel service for nearly three days.

“A high number of ad hoc vessel calls, the addition of...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/quarterly-volumes-up-at-georgia-ports-despite-september-decline

Golden Ray: Section seven separated from wreck

The St. Simons Sound Response team reports that cutting operations to separate Section Seven of the wreck of the capsized car carrier Golden Ray concluded earlier today (April 24).

[St. Simons Sound Incident Response photo.]

Wreck removal personnel will prepare the section for lifting operations by removing vehicles, moveable decks and sediment, similarly to previous weight-shedding operations.

Once lifted, Section Seven will be loaded onto a barge and secured for transit to a facility at the...

https://www.marinelog.com/shipping/salvage/golden-ray-section-seven-separated-from-wreck/

Search ends for Port of Savannah longshoreman

The Coast Guard has ended the search for a Port of Savannah longshoreman who fell into the water early Tuesday.

The longshoreman was identified as 70-year-old Joe Williams, a resident of the greater Savannah area in Georgia. 

Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Charleston were notified by the Georgia Port Authority at shortly before 3 a.m. Turesday that a man had fallen into the water while transiting the gangway to the Maersk Tukang and had not resurfaced.

Maersk said normal vessel operations,...

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GPA selects RailComm for Savannah yard automation

The Georgia Port Authority selected RailComm, LLC as the Yard Management System provider for the new Port of Savannah Multi-Modal Connector. In a competitive bid, the Georgia Port Authority awarded the yard management system for the rail facilities associated with the expansion of the port to RailComm.

As a result of the Panama Canal expansion completed in 2015, much larger container vessels are capable of transiting to ports on the east coast to off load and on-load intermodal container cargo....

https://container-news.com/gpa-railcomm-savannah-yard-automation/