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Port of Savannah
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Location
Coordinates32.128705,-81.151907
Details
Draft depth42 feet [1]
Air draft185 feet, restricted by Talmadge Memorial Bridge

The Port of Savannah is a major U. S. seaport located at Savannah, Georgia.[2] Its facilities for oceangoing vessels line both sides of the Savannah River approximately 18 miles (29 km) from the Atlantic Ocean. Operated by the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA), the Port of Savannah competes primarily with the Port of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina to the northeast, and the Port of Jacksonville in Jacksonville, Florida to the south. The GPA operates one other Atlantic seaport in Georgia, the Port of Brunswick, located at Brunswick, Georgia. There are three interior ports linked to the Gulf of Mexico, Port Bainbridge and Port Columbus, and one linked to the Port of Savannah by rail in Cordele, Georgia.[3]

The location of the Port of Savannah, GA
Port of Savannah
Port of Savannah

Between 2000 and 2005 alone, the Port of Savannah was the fastest-growing seaport in the United States, with a compounded annual growth rate of 16.5 percent (the national average is 9.7 percent). On July 30, 2007, the GPA announced that the Port of Savannah had a record year in fiscal 2007, becoming the fourth-busiest and fastest-growing container terminal in the U.S.[4] The GPA handled more than 2.3 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) of container traffic during fiscal 2007– a 14.5 percent increase and a new record for containers handled at the Port of Savannah. In the past five years, the port's container traffic has jumped 55 percent from 1.5 million TEU handled in fiscal 2003 to 2.3 million TEU in fiscal 2007.[5] By 2014, container traffic was up to 3 million TEU.[6]

Major facilities

Port of Savannah was unable to accommodate further terminal growth, which caused it to develop satellite terminal facilities and inland distribution.[7] These facilities include:

  • Garden City Terminal: Owned and operated by the GPA, the Garden City Terminal is a secured, dedicated container terminal, the largest of its kind on the U. S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts.[citation needed] The 1,200-acre (5 km2) single-terminal facility features 9,693 feet (2,955 m) of continuous berthing and more than 1.3 million square feet (120,000 m2) of covered storage.[citation needed] The terminal is equipped with fifteen high-speed container cranes (4 super post-panamax and 11 post-panamax), as well as an extensive inventory of yard handling equipment.[citation needed]
  • Ocean Terminal: Also owned and operated by the GPA, the Ocean Terminal is a secured, dedicated breakbulk facility specializing in the rapid and efficient handling of a vast array of forest and solid wood products, steel, RoRo (Roll-on / Roll-off), project shipments and heavy-lift cargoes.[citation needed] The 208-acre (0.8 km2) facility features 6,688 feet (2,039 m) of deepwater berthing, approximately 1.5 million square feet (140,000 m2) of covered storage and 96 acres (390,000 m2) of open, versatile storage.[citation needed]
  • Target Corporation Facility: On September 21, 2005, Governor Sonny Perdue announced that Target Corporation has decided to build a two-million-square-foot import warehouse at the Savannah River International Trade Park, located four miles (6 km) from the Garden City Terminal at the Port of Savannah.[citation needed] The import warehouse opened on June 8, 2007, and handles overseas cargo and merchandise for Target Corporation's Southeast stores.[citation needed]
  • IKEA Facility: On December 13, 2005, Perdue and IKEA would build a 1,700,000-square-foot (160,000 m2) distribution center on 115 acres (0.5 km2) at the Savannah River International Trade Park.[citation needed] The first phase of the project consists of a 685,000-square-foot (63,600 m2) facility, which opened on June 27, 2007.[citation needed] The company also plans to expand the initial facility by approximately 975,000 square feet (90,600 m2) in the future.[citation needed]
  • Heineken USA Facility: Heineken USA opened a distribution center in February 2008 that will handle 4,000 containers a year, moving from breweries in the Netherlands to distributors in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama.[citation needed] The facility will handle 7 million cases of Heineken and Amstel brand beverages every year.[citation needed]
  • Savannah Port Terminal Railroad, a railroad that links the terminal facilities to the Genesee & Wyoming railroad.

Maersk Line

On April 10, 2007, Maersk Line reported that the port has added the Port of Savannah to its MECL2 service. With the addition, Maersk Line now has five services calling on the Port of Savannah. The MECL2 service will increase Savannah's trade with India, the Middle East and the Mediterranean basin. In 2006, Maersk Line and the GPA signed a twenty-year agreement that would make the Port of Savannah one of its primary ports of call in the South Atlantic. The MECL2 service provides direct service from Chennai/Madras, India, to act as transshipment hub for cargo to and from Visakhapatnam, Calcutta/Haldia, and Bangladesh.

Suez Express and East Coast Savannah Express

On June 5, 2007, APL announced that it would have two new all-water services to the Port of Savannah, one via the Suez Canal and one via the Panama Canal. The weekly Suez Express (SZX) will provide increased capacity via Savannah to and from India and Southeast Asia, deploying eight vessels. The SZX, which will originate in Singapore, calls on Colombo, Sri Lanka, before Savannah and then returns via Jebel Ali, Port Kelang and then Singapore. It takes 25 days for the SZX service to transit from Singapore to Savannah. The weekly East Coast Savannah Express (ESX), will provide increased capacity between south and central China and Savannah. The ESX will offer a transit time of 22 days from Hong Kong to Savannah, making this service the fastest available to the U.S. East Coast.[citation needed] The ESX originates in Ningbo then call on Shanghai, Chiwan, Hong Kong, Panama and then Savannah, New York, Norfolk, Panama and back to Ningbo.

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/Portals/70/docs/portswaterways/rpt/June_20_U.S._Port_and_Inland_Waterways_Preparing_for_Post_Panamax_Vessels.pdf
  2. ^ Bobo Mullens, David William (2013). "Dredging the Port of Savannah to Deepen Georgia's Connections Worldwide". Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law. 42 (1): 269–276. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
  3. ^ Hutchins, Reynolds (5 September 2015). "Georgia's Inland Feeding Frenzy". Journal of Commerce. 17 (18): 44–45. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
  4. ^ atlanta.bizjournals.com
  5. ^ Morley, Hugh R. (19 September 2016). "Record Savannah imports surge amid peak season". JoC Online. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
  6. ^ Carla Vianna (December 2, 2015). "Will Miami, Broward seaports converge?". Miami Today. Retrieved December 3, 2015.
  7. ^ Dunn, Brian (27 January 2014). "How other port clusters take advantage of growth opportunities". Canadian Sailings: 15–19. Retrieved 31 October 2016.

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