Port of Savannah

Overall volume helped maritime terminals of the Georgia Ports Authority to their second-busiest September on record.

China-based Windrose Technology plans to open a factory in Georgia where the company will produce an electric semi-truck.

Georgia Ports Authority said it handled 428,000 containers and 65,400 roll-on, roll-off units in January.

Hopes for a significant rebound in Panama Canal water levels to boost throughput will likely be met with a harsh reality over the next few months.

Georgia Ports Authority announced plans to construct a $29 million overpass to keep trucks away from neighborhoods in Savannah.

Georgia Ports Authority will use internal funds and a $46.8 million federal grant to build the Blue Ridge Connection inland rail terminal in Gainesville.

Shippers are reverting to pre-pandemic shipping patterns, which may exacerbate the next freight market shift.

Despite a 22% volume decline year over year, the Port of Savannah had its fourth-busiest October, according to the Georgia Ports Authority.

Canadian Pacific Kansas City and CSX are seeking approval from the Surface Transportation Board to acquire some of the assets of short line Meridian & Bigbee Railroad. They plan to beef up an Alabama interchange as part of an effort to create a Mexico-Southeast corridor.

The Georgia Ports Authority reported a dip in August volumes at the Port of Savannah. But volume increases for rail traffic and roll-on/roll-off cargo were bright sports for GPA last month.

The new service will provide a direct connection from the Port of Savannah to CSX’s intermodal terminal in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

Container volumes in July rose sequentially by 17% but were down by 16% year over year at the Port of Savannah, the Georgia Ports Authority said Thursday.

A decline in loaded import volumes pulled the Georgia Ports Authority’s overall 2023 volumes lower.

America’s imports are not signaling a recession, at least not yet. Inbound volumes are rising from the bottom.

The Georgia Ports Authority reported its second-busiest February ever.

The Georgia Ports Authority said a 16% drop in imports year over year “was fueled in part by reduced orders in retail and manufacturing.”

American imports remain a tale of two coasts, with continued strength in container volumes headed to Atlantic ports.

Remaining queues of waiting ships are dwindling, another sign that supply chain pressure is winding down.

Container shipping lines are gradually getting their services back on schedule, but they still have a long way to go.

The Georgia Ports Authority last month handled 464,883 twenty-foot equivalent units, a decline of 6.2% from the 494,699 TEUs moved in November 2021.

GPA will shift breakbulk cargo carried by Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean to the Port of Brunswick so that it can “optimize cargo movement” at both the ports at Brunswick and Savannah.

Southern California’s container-ship logjam ends as congestion eases at East and Gulf Coast ports.

The head of Los Angeles’ port is on a worldwide sales blitz, trying to convince shippers and carriers to come back.

Container volumes were up year over year in Savannah and Charleston, while crude oil exports set a record in Corpus Christi.

Nicole is forecast to move through Florida to Georgia on Thursday and then to the Carolinas on Friday.

Imports remain 7% higher than pre-pandemic levels, with volumes steadying last month after September’s plunge.

Declining imports have led to fewer container ships waiting off ports, injecting more capacity into the market, a negative for spot rates.

Although Hurricane Ian dented volumes at Georgia’s ports, Georgia Ports Authority still saw quarterly volumes grow by 9.6% year over year.

Demand for Asian goods began dropping earlier this year. This is now having a delayed — and highly negative — effect on U.S. imports.

Here’s the latest on Ian’s supply chain impact from FreightWaves’ team of reporters and market experts.

East and Gulf coast ports handled more volume than ever before in August, pulling far ahead of West Coast rivals.

U.S. containerized imports are still near record highs, but not in Los Angeles, where they’ve fallen sharply.

The Georgia Ports Authority is on track to move a record-setting 6 million twenty-foot equivalent units this fiscal year.

Spot container rates for U.S.-bound cargoes are falling fast, yet import numbers at U.S. ports remain near their peak.

The Georgia Ports Authority says the Navis system “eliminates data silos, improves velocity across our terminals and enables us to more easily integrate with our customers to provide the data and insights they need.”

California’s container-ship traffic jam is almost gone, replaced by stubbornly high backlogs off the East and Gulf coasts.

Spot rates on most global shipping routes continue to fall. The trans-Atlantic market is the exception: It’s holding firm near its high.

U.S. imports accelerated in July, with inbound cargo from China reaching a year-to-date high, according to Descartes.

Georgia Ports Authority kicks off the start of its new fiscal year with volumes at over a half million TEUs.

Port congestion and voyage cancellations by shipping lines are preventing a steeper slide in spot container freight rates.

The drop in ships waiting off Southern California is deceiving. The number of ships off all three coasts is back to all-time highs.

Consumer demand, vessel diversions and efforts to avoid congested West Coast ports drove the Georgia Ports Authority to break its record for annual volumes.

America’s goods imports hit a capacity ceiling during the COVID-era boom. Volumes are still bouncing around near the top.

There were 125 container ships waiting offshore on Friday, including 36 off Savannah, 24 off Southern California and 20 each off Houston and New York.

A number of East Coast ports saw volumes increase in May, and Savannah was one of them.

May was one of the busiest months in history for the container ports of Long Beach and Charleston.

The number of container ships waiting off Los Angeles/Long Beach recently sank to 25, the lowest tally since July 2021.

It was another record month for GPA, with container volumes up by over 6% year-over-year.

The sustained year-over-year gains propel the Georgia Ports Authority to expedite more than $538 million in funding for projects aimed at increasing capacity at the Port of Savannah.

More than 20 years after the planning began, the Port of Savannah shipping channel has been deepened to 47 feet at low tide.

Congestion could go from bad to worse as liners steer a record number of container ships toward East Coast ports.

The Coast Guard said it is working with the Maryland Department of the Environment to refloat the grounded Ever Forward.

Georgia Ports Authority outlined projects that would take container capacity to 9.5 million TEUs by 2025.

The Port of Savannah has seen monthly port records for the past 18 months.

The Port of Savannah handled a record 5.6 million TEUs in 2021.

Popular interest in the supply chain may have faded, but the pileup of ships waiting offshore keeps growing.

Carriers and shippers are turning to East Coast ports as Los Angeles/Long Beach remains mired in congestion.

The Health Industry Distributors Association said that between 8,000 to 12,000 containers filled with millions of critical medical supplies are delayed.

The Port of Savannah handled 6.7% more containers in November compared to a year ago, according to the Georgia Ports Authority.

Georgia port officials are engaged in what appears to be the largest current expansion of a port in North America.

Innovation and investment are the watchwords at the Georgia Ports Authority, where officials are rushing to deal with supply chain constraints.

Onboarding accounts should be a bigger thing than it is; airports used as container storage yards; airfreight is now an affordable option; and a few more quarterly earnings dissected.

Desperate times call for desperate measures, and Georgia port officials are pulling every lever possible to reduce shipping delays that are having a national impact.

Port America, Ceres and SSA Atlantic have formed joint venture Gateway Terminals at the Port of Savannah as a way to consolidate terminal, truck gate and stevedoring services.

Upward of 2,000 empty containers are being sent to LA, potentially creating more burden on the congested port.

For the time being, two ocean services will not call Georgia’s busy Port of Savannah.

The East Coast ports of Savannah and Jacksonville are adding more container capacity amid long-term plans to serve as an alternative to West Coast ports.

Container volumes rose 25% at the Port of Savannah, while auto and machinery units grew 39% at Brunswick.

Queue of container ships off U.S. ports keeps building, with months’ worth of peak-season cargo still to unload.

Almost no container ships were stuck at anchor when 2020 peak season began. This peak season, terminals are pre-clogged.

Griff Lynch, the Georgia Ports Authority’s executive director, doesn’t expect another growth spike and says he’ll be happy to maintain current volume levels.

The project continues the region’s hot streak in attracting logistics development.

Federal funding and private investments lend support to the supply chain infrastructure surrounding the Port of Savannah.

Normally big projects are scheduled during slow periods, but the Port of Savannah can’t wait to deepen its berths so there will be extra cargo delays for a few weeks.

The “unprecedented” influx of imports continues on the West and East coasts.

“Demand for products and services both domestically and abroad is driving significant gains in Georgia’s cargo volumes,” says Executive Director Griff Lynch.

Get your cameras ready along the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina.

The facility will be located about 8 miles from the Georgia Ports Authority’s Garden City Terminal.

OmniTRAX is working with the River Ridge Development Authority of southern Indiana to develop real estate, while a Genesee & Wyoming subsidiary broadens its rail service agreement to include service to the Mason Mega Rail Terminal at the Port of Savannah.

Savannah’s record March underscores why it’s investing hundreds of millions on new capacity upgrades.

U.S. ports just booked their largest import hikes in memory, according to The McCown Report.

Maersk and ZIM ships are being deployed in response to “customers’ increased cargo demands.”

Suez Canal accident aftermath: Extensive disruptions are ahead for key Asia-East Coast container shipping services.

Anchorages are filling up with ships off multiple ports — not just California’s. Yet the reasons behind the traffic jams are not always the same.

“As we continue to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, now is the time to accelerate our throughput and growth,” says Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf.

FreightCar America makes Terry Rogers its permanent CFO, the Association of American Railroads reports weekly U.S. rail volumes rose 0.3% year-over-year, and The Broe Group updates its progress on a Savannah, Georgia-area industrial park.

On Wednesday, the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled against SK Innovation Co. Ltd. for stealing battery trade secrets from LG Chem. What implications does this have for OEMs that rely on SK?

Thanks to the congestion in Los Angeles, container rates and volumes in Savannah are both hitting highs. When will volumes stabilize?

The Georgia Ports Authority is adding capacity in anticipation of another busy year.

Shippers are looking to speed up delivery and avoid long wait times by utilizing space on the East Coast. As a result, import volumes at eastern ports are on the rise.

Container flows into U.S. ports have grown faster over the past three months than they have at any other time in the past decade.

The all-time best month tops the mark set in just October.

Coast Guard utilized helicopter, response boat and local agencies in the effort to find longshoreman Joe Williams.

The trans-Pacific market is bursting at the seams as shippers rush in holiday cargoes.

Coast Guard helicopter and response boat used along coast of Georgia.

State officials were among the guests cheering for the ports’ fiscal-year successes.

1971: Jacksonville, Savannah and Charleston duke it out for Southeastern port crown.

Georgia Ports Authority heralding performance before the month is done.

Earnings reports from retailers show a clear shakeout between winners and losers.

The port is a top choice for Fortune 100 companies that have been integral to the country’s pandemic response.