{"id":3951,"date":"2019-12-04T21:50:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T18:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/?p=3951"},"modified":"2019-12-04T21:50:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T18:50:28","slug":"georgia-ports-authority-gears-to-surpass-4-6-m-teus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/georgia-ports-authority-gears-to-surpass-4-6-m-teus\/3951\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Ports Authority Gears to Surpass 4.6 M TEUs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) is about to exceed 4.6 million twenty-foot equivalent container units for the first time in a calendar year, the East Coast-based port authority said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This marks a 14 percent increase in trade levels over volumes moved through Savannah just three years ago, or an additional 550,000 TEUs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over the same period, the authority has increased the annual capacity at the Port of Savannah from 5 million to 5.5 million TEUs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThrough incredible teamwork from the GPA and the ILA on the docks, to the motor carriers and Class I railroads, and to our partners throughout the supply chain, Georgia has managed to create a powerful hub for commerce that is creating jobs and economic opportunity in every corner of the state,\u201d said GPA Executive Director Griff Lynch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lynch said to keep cargo flowing, GPA is adding cranes, container rows, truck gates and intermodal capacity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the first phase of GPA\u2019s Mason Mega Rail project opening this spring, cargo moved by rail has grown twice as fast as the authority\u2019s overall three-year growth rate in container trade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the calendar year-to-date through October, the GPA moved 3.88 million twenty-foot equivalent container units, an increase of 222,800 TEUs or 6 percent, year over year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Total tonnage crossing all GPA terminals reached 32.5 million tons January through October, up 4 percent over 2018, or 1.21 million tons, including containerized, bulk and breakbulk cargo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Port of Savannah is handling the highest volumes of any container terminal in the U.S. Southeast, moving as many as 8,000 TEUs per ship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Port of Savannah\u2019s aims to increase irs annual capacity to 11 million TEUs, up from the current capacity of 5.5 million TEUs per year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The authority plans to expand beyond its 1,200-acre footprint at Garden City Terminal to establish a new container port on Hutchinson Island, across the Savannah River channel. The 200-acre Georgia site sits directly across from Ocean Terminal in Savannah. It will have an annual capacity of 2.5 million TEUs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post_share_buttons\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) is about to exceed 4.6 million twenty-foot equivalent container units for the first time in a calendar year, the East Coast-based port authority said. This marks a 14 percent increase in trade levels over volumes moved through Savannah just three years ago, or an additional 550,000 TEUs. 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