The Ports

Georgia’s deep water ports and inland barge terminals support nearly 561,000 jobs throughout the state annually and contributes $33 billion in income, $140 billion in sales, and $3.8 billion in state and local taxes to Georgia’s economy.

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The Port of Savannah is the largest single container terminal in the Western Hemisphere. In FY2023 it moved 5.4 million TEUs (Twenty Foot Equivalent Container Units) in throughput, a decrease of 6.7% when compared to the previous year, all-time high.

The Port of Savannah moved 22.1% of the East Coast container trade. The port handled 12.3% of all U.S. containerized exports in FY2023 (PIERS-Enterprise).

The Port of Savannah

The Port of Savannah offers its customers many advantages:

The most global container services among U.S. Southeast & Gulf ports • Transit times as low as 23 days from Asia and 11 days from Europe
GPA is owner & operator of the largest single-terminal container facility (Garden City) in the U.S. which also features the longest contiguous dock in the U.S. of nearly 10,000 linear feet
Largest Southeast refrigerated container import-export terminal
One-of-a-kind intermodal infrastructure located on a single terminal served by CSX Transportation & Norfolk Southern Railroad
Inspection offices for U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife are on-terminal
Immediate access to two major interstate highways – I-95 (North/South) and I-16 (East/West)
Largest concentration of retail import distribution centers (DCs) along the East Coast
Customer Service Center – one-stop customer solutions group for all port users

The Georgia Ports Authority operates two deep-water terminals in Savannah – Garden City and Ocean Terminal: Garden City Terminal:

A 500-foot channel width and a secured, dedicated 1,500-acre single-terminal container facility
105 million square feet in industrial/warehouse space off terminal, and another 41.5 million under construction

Ocean Terminal:

A 200.8-acre general cargo terminal features 3,599 linear feet
Handles RoRo, breakbulk, containers, heavy-lift and project cargo
1.3 million square feet of covered storage
For More Information contact the Georgia Ports Authority, www.gaports.com. (912) 964-3855 or (800) 342-8012

For more information on the Georgia Ports Authority, visit gaports.com.