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Lineage opens produce facility near Port of Savannah

Port Wentworth, Georgia, location to process up to 1.4 million pounds of produce daily

Pictured is Lineage Logistics' new facility in Savannah (Photo: Lineage Logistics)

Temperature-controlled real estate investment trust Lineage Logistics said Thursday it has opened a 220,000-square-foot facility near the Port of Savannah to process up to 1.4 million pounds of produce per day.

The Savannah Fresh-Port Wentworth facility, located in the city of Port Wentworth, Georgia, has 23 inbound and outbound lanes that can process more than 40 trucks per day. It also offers cross-docking services for products to move through the facility the same day if needed.

The facility was designed to address the influx of produce imports to mid-Atlantic ports that lack the space to keep up with the demand, Novi, Michigan-based Lineage said.

The $78 million project has created 65 jobs, Lineage said. 


Lineage, one of the largest companies of its kind, operates more than 2 billion cubic feet spanning 20 countries with more than 400 facilities.

Mark Solomon

Formerly the Executive Editor at DC Velocity, Mark Solomon joined FreightWaves as Managing Editor of Freight Markets. Solomon began his journalistic career in 1982 at Traffic World magazine, ran his own public relations firm (Media Based Solutions) from 1994 to 2008, and has been at DC Velocity since then. Over the course of his career, Solomon has covered nearly the whole gamut of the transportation and logistics industry, including trucking, railroads, maritime, 3PLs, and regulatory issues. Solomon witnessed and narrated the rise of Amazon and XPO Logistics and the shift of the U.S. Postal Service from a mail-focused service to parcel, as well as the exponential, e-commerce-driven growth of warehouse square footage and omnichannel fulfillment.