{"id":28418,"date":"2021-12-08T09:59:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T06:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/port-of-savannah-to-add-extra-1-6m-teu-capacity-by-june\/28418\/"},"modified":"2021-12-08T09:59:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T06:59:58","slug":"port-of-savannah-to-add-extra-1-6m-teu-capacity-by-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/port-of-savannah-to-add-extra-1-6m-teu-capacity-by-june\/28418\/","title":{"rendered":"Port of Savannah to add extra 1.6m teu capacity by June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-before-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) plans to expedite the completion of 1.6m twenty-foot equivalent container units in annual capacity. By January 2022, GPA will open 670,000 TEUs of new annual capacity at the Port of Savannah\u2019s Garden City Terminal. In early March, 155,000 TEUs of additional terminal capacity will be available, and by June another 850,000 TEUs will come online at the port, delivering a total capacity increase of 25% in six months.<\/p>\n<p>In September, <a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/port-of-savannah-to-add-1-6m-teu-of-capacity-by-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">when the GPA board of directors approved the expenditure<\/span><\/a> for the expansion, project completion was expected in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter our busiest month ever in October, this new container space is coming online just in time,\u201d said GPA Board Chairman Joel Wooten. \u201cBy expediting the projects needed to ensure the free flow of cargo, we\u2019re addressing our customers\u2019 concerns today, and working to re-establish our long-time practice of keeping capacity 20% above current demand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Off-terminal, GPA is growing by another half-million TEUs in annual capacity by expanding its inland port strategy to include flexible \u201cpop-up\u201d container yards near manufacturing and distribution centres. At four locations, in Atlanta, Savannah, Statesboro, and Murray County in northwest Georgia, these yards make cargo available closer to customers and increase capacity by reducing unnecessary container storage time at Garden City Terminal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-in-post-middle\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>GPA Executive Director Griff Lynch said that, with the new capacity arriving and customers clearing cargo more quickly, the Port of Savannah has already seen a dramatic drop in the length of time containers are on terminal. He said the number of import containers on port for more than four weeks has dropped by 53% compared with September.<\/p>\n<p>At its meeting this week, the GPA board also approved the $24.4m purchase of nine electric-powered rubber-tired gantry cranes that will help support the expansion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-after-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2\"> <script>googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2'); });<\/script> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta post-bottom-tags post-tags-modern\">\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta-title\">\n<span class=\"tie-icon-tags\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> Tags<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/tag\/united-states\/\" rel=\"tag\">United States<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>splash247<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) plans to expedite the completion of 1.6m twenty-foot equivalent container units in annual capacity. By January 2022, GPA will open 670,000 TEUs of new annual capacity at the Port of Savannah\u2019s Garden City Terminal. In early March, 155,000 TEUs of additional terminal capacity will be available, and by June another &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-port-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/25571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}