The Port of Savannah in Georgia, US has handled 4.75 million TEU in the ten months of the fiscal year 2022 (July 2021 – June 2022), which translates to an 8% increase compared to the same period in the previous year.
Additionally, the major port in the US moved nearly 500,000 TEU in April, which represents the best April and the third-busiest month in the port’s history.
“The phenomenal growth we have achieved has been made possible by the team effort of the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) and...
Following January’s record performance, Griff Lynch, the executive director of Georgia Ports Authority (GPA), unveiled plans to expand the Port of Savannah’s container capacity by 60%, which will increase the port’s annual capacity to 9.5 million TEU by 2025.
Projects underway will add 1.7 million TEU of annual capacity in four months. GPA’s Peak Capacity project has already added 400,000 TEU in container handling space to the Garden City Terminal and it is expected to make room for another...
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Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) Board has announced its plans to accelerate the completion of its container capacity expansion, which is scheduled to add more than 1.6 million TEU annual capacity by June 2022.
Particularly, GPA will open 670,000TEU of new annual capacity at Garden City Terminal by January, while an additional terminal capacity of 155,000 TEU will be available in early March. Furthermore, another 850,000 TEU is expected to be added at the port until June.
These projects are...
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Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) has completed and is now operating the second set of nine new rail tracks for a total of 18 tracks at its Mason Mega Rail Terminal. The expansion immediately increases intermodal capacity to and from the Port of Savannah by more than 30%.
“The massive new Mason Mega Rail yard is coming online at the perfect time to help address the influx of cargo crossing the docks at the Port of Savannah,” said Governor Brian P. Kemp. “The added rail capacity, along with new...
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The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) is planning to issue via public offering approximately US$425 million in revenue bonds to fund infrastructure projects at the Port of Savannah.
In particular, the bonds that are set to be offered for sale during the week starting on 18 October, will fund capital improvements for the Savannah’s Garden City Terminal capacity, as a part of GPA’s effort to serve the largest vessels calling on the US East Coast and to better handle the growth expected in the port’s...
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Amid reporting the second busiest month ever in the Port of Savannah, Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) has approved more than US$34 million to facilitate the addition of 1.6 million TEU of container capacity.
The Peak Capacity Project, foreground, is currently under construction and will provide 800,000TEU of annual capacity at the Port of Savannah. The project will be completed in two phases, with the first coming online in December.
The executive director of GPA, Griff Lynch affirmed that in three...
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The Port of Savannah has announced it served the largest vessel to ever call the US East Coast on 26 May. The 16,000TEU container ship CMA CGM Marco Polo docked at the Port of Savannah’s Berth 9, which is the largest single container facility in North America.
A team of logistics professionals tackled the CMA CGM vessel with seven ship-to-shore cranes and hundreds of men and women on the ground and aboard the vessel to load and unload an estimated 6,000 TEUs of cargo, according to a statement.
“In...
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Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) has reported a year-on-year 38% increase in container trade for April with the Port of Savannah handling 466,633TEU in the second-busiest month on record after last March.
At the same time, the rate of growth in intermodal rail lifts at Garden City Terminal slightly outpaced overall container growth, increasing by 39% (13,500 lifts), for a total of 48,000 twenty- and forty-foot containers, while GPA’s intermodal trade accounted for more than 87,000TEU in the last...
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The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) has ordered 20 eco-efficient Konecranes Rubber Tired Gantry (RTG) cranes and 8 Konecranes Ship-to-Shore (STS) cranes for the Port of Savannah.
The GPA placed the order as it prepares to serve the world’s largest container vessels such as the HMM Algeciras class and Maersk’s Triple-E class, which have capacities of 24,000TEU or more.
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The port of Savannah became the top port in the United States for the export of containerised agricultural goods.
In 2019, agriculture accounted for 60% of Savannah’s exports, which translates to more than 843,000TEU. Forest products such as wood pulp, paper and logs made up the largest category of goods, followed by clay, cotton and poultry. For the fiscal year to date (July 2019-May 2020), total loaded exports have increased by 15,500TEU to 1.33 million TEU.
“Agriculture is a major driver for...
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