Port of Savannah

Georgia Ports Authority draws $5B investment to double container capacity

To handle the growing container trade crossing Garden City Terminal, the GPA is expanding its rail infrastructure and offerings.

September 13, 2019

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The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA), Savannah, Ga., announced plans to double capacity at Garden City Terminal to 11 million 20-foot equivalent container units per year.

Americold acquires PortFresh Holdings, plans to develop state-of-the-art, temperature-controlled facility

Americold also plans to build a new 15 million-cubic-foot, state-of-the-art cold storage facility on adjacent land owned by PortFresh.

January 31, 2019

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Americold Realty Trust, Atlanta, acquired PortFresh Holdings, LLC, a temperature-controlled operator servicing fresh produce trade primarily through the Port of Savannah, Savannah, Ga.

Appalachian Regional Port opens for business

ARP offers customers across North Georgia, Northeast Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky a more efficient option to move cargo to and from Savannah's container port.

August 22, 2018

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The Appalachian Regional Port (ARP), located in Chatsworth, Ga., is now open for business.

Georgia Ports Authority welcomes new container ship

At the 1,200-acre Garden City Terminal, five cranes will move more than 4,000 containers on and off the vessel, including 3,432 export containers and 655 import boxes.

July 27, 2018

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The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA), Savannah, Ga., welcomed the container ship, Stork.

Port of Savannah expansion project on schedule

Over the next 10 years, GPA will invest approximately $2 billion in new cranes and terminal infrastructure to handle expanding cargo volumes.

March 1, 2018

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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, D.C., completed outer harbor dredging at the Port of Savannah, Savannah, Ga., marking the midpoint of the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP).

New developments position Port of Savannah as U.S. gateway port

The new development is less than five miles from the Garden City Container Terminal and can accommodate up to 5 million square feet of logistics space.

February 7, 2017

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The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA), Garden City, Ga., announced the sale of 500 acres of property for commercial development to accommodate growing customer demand for warehousing, distribution and transload facilities near the Port of Savannah.

Port of Savannah receives four new Panamax cranes

Designed by Konecranes of Finland, these cranes can work the largest ships calling on the U.S. East Coast, reaching across vessels 22 containers wide.

December 6, 2016

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Four new Super Post Panamax ship-to-shore cranes arrived at Garden City Terminal, bringing the Port of Savannah's total to 26, what is said to be more than any other U.S. terminal.

PortFresh Logistics to build cold treatment facility at Port of Savannah’s Garden City Terminal

PortFresh’s state-of-the-art cold storage facility is specifically designed to allow multiple climate zones.

July 22, 2016

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PortFresh Logistics, Savannah, Ga., announced plans to build a 100,000-square-foot cold treatment facility dedicated to perishable cargoes imported through the Port of Savannah.

Nordic Logistics doubles capacity of cold storage, blast freezing facility

The added space will bring the company's total Savannah frozen and chilled storage capacity to 50,000 tons of cargo and double the current blast capacity.

April 20, 2016

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Nordic Logistics and Warehousing, an Atlanta-based member of AGRO Merchants Group, Alpharetta, Ga., doubled the capacity of its Savannah, Ga., location by adding a new 200,000-square-foot cold storage and blast freezing facility to the existing site.

Port of Savannah improves ship-to-shore with new process automation technology

December 31, 2015

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Georgia Ports Authority (GPA), Brunswick, Ga., extended its use of process automation technology from Identec Solutions, Dallas, Texas, to support the operation of new ship-to-shore and rubber-tired gantry cranes at the Port of Savannah, Savannah, Ga.