Port of Savannah

Further, it seems that activity is continuing to heat up when looking at some of the forward-looking port data.

For example, at the Port of Savannah, the Georgia Port authorities reported its best ever September, and on the other side of the country, the Port of Los Angeles reported the single busiest month ever in the port's 118-year history.

This shows that it's not just domestic equipment that's been driving intermodal strength this year, but increasingly so, it has also been international equipment.

But that does beg the question, what has been driving this increase in international activity? There's a few factors that I want to call out specifically, though this list will not be an exhaustive list of every factor that might be contributing to the growth.

software update.

Speaking of physical assets, look at the port of Savannah.

They just got the green light for a $23 billion expansion.

3.5 million TEUs of additional capacity.

In container logistics news, there is an article in Railway Age about how major port expansion projects in Georgia and Pennsylvania are set to add substantial cargo capacity and improve inland freight connections.

The Georgia Ports Authority received federal approval for a two point three billion dollar Savannah container terminal that will add three point five million TEUs of annual capacity and help increase the Port of Savannah's total capacity to twelve million TEUs.

Construction is scheduled to begin in twenty twenty-eight.

Pennsylvania separately announced three hundred seventy-one point five million dollars in state funding for Philaport, supporting an expansion valued at more than eight hundred thirty-seven million dollars with private and federal investment.

Tennessee is getting twenty-four million for five hundred spots near Nashville and Knoxville.

Georgia's getting nearly twelve million for the Port of Savannah.

It's a strategic play to get the gear moving again.

I mean, it's a start, but two thousand spots for the whole country? That's like putting a Band-Aid on a broken leg.

That's a fascinating trade-off.

It's like we're trading diesel fumes for data center heat.

Which actually brings us to the Port of Savannah.

The Army Corps of Engineers just approved the permit for that $2.3 billion container terminal on Hutchison Island.

The incidents come amid a recent increase in attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait, with UK maritime trade operations reporting multiple container ship and tanker attacks as tensions between the United States and Iran continue.

In container terminal news, there is an article about how the Port of Savannah received federal approval to build the Savannah Container Terminal, its third container terminal, and a major component of plans to increase total port capacity to 12 million TEUs over the next decade.

Construction is expected to begin in January 2028, following United States Army Corps of Engineers approval after a three-year review.

The 350-acre terminal on Hutchison Island is planned to handle 3.5 million TE use at full build-out and will include three large vessel berths and rail-mounted gantry cranes.

For GPB News, I'm Grant Blankenship in Macon.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved a plan to build a third cargo terminal at the Port of Savannah.

The Georgia Ports Authority first announced plans for the $2.3 billion Ocean Gateway on Hutchinson Island in 2019.

It's part of a massive expansion at the port and comes after a three-year federal review.

Southeast Georgia, it's growing.

The Port of Savannah is top three largest ports in the United States.

Yeah.

Soon to be, soon to be number two.

I was just looking at a report this morning on container movements.

Uh, the Port of Savannah i- is huge.

The, the Port of Brunswick is the number one roll-on, roll-off port in the country, and, and you're continuing to see exports build as these, these businesses continue to move back.

Are they gonna move back in six months? No, they don't have that ability, but over the next 24 months, 36 months, 48, sure, you're gonna see it continue, and you're gonna see America be the powerhouse that we deserve to be because now this thing is gonna be more fair.

Yes.

It's an invasive orb spider, and I was on a Garden Comm Zoom thing, like, a week and a half ago, and a c- a friend in Georgia was talking about how they came in at the Port of Savannah, they think-

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