GPA adds 100 acres Auto Processing Space
At the annual State of the Port address hosted by the Brunswick-Golden Isles Chamber of Commerce Wednesday, Georgia Ports Authority Executive Director Griff Lynch announced a 100-acre expansion of the Colonel's Island auto terminal, and welcomed Logistec's announcement of the completion of 221,000 square feet of wood pellet storage at GPA's East River Terminal. "The additional 100 acres will allow GPA to grow along with our existing customers, and to attract additional carmakers to the nation's second busiest auto port," Lynch said. Twenty of the 100 acres are paved and in use by Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, while International Auto Processing has leased another 49 acres it will occupy by May 2017.
GPA Surpasses Two Million TEUs in FY06
The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) announced its fiscal year end results with all key business sectors reporting positive growth for the year. The Port of Savannah handled 2,041,789 Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit containers (TEUs) in FY06, an increase of 15.9 percent from the previous year. Total GPA intermodal rail lifts also rose 23.1 percent for the year. Auto and machinery units handled by the GPA totaled 376,446, an increase of 8.2 percent. A record 368,475 units were handled at the Colonel’s Island Terminal alone. The completion of Phase One of Container Berth 8, part of the largest single container facility in the USA; the GPA Board of Directors approved an $82.6m capital improvement program which will include four Super Post-Panamax Cranes…
GPA Grows Market Share and Container Capacity
Doug Marchand, Executive Director of the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA), announced at a meeting of the Board of the Directors today that the Port of Savannah had attained another month of impressive container growth. "GPA is simultaneously gaining market share while growing container capacity," said Marchand. GPA's April results show that 129,040 TEUs were moved through the Port of Savannah, a 36.6 percent increase, or 34,569 more TEUs than April of last year. Records also show that for the first ten months of Fiscal Year 2003 (July-April), 1,259,518 TEUs were moved through the Port of Savannah, a 33.5 percent increase, or 316,177 more TEUs than at this time last year.
