The Appalachian Regional Port in Northwest Georgia’s Murray County achieved its busiest November on record, moving 3,876 containers last month — a nearly 35% jump from a year earlier.
The Port of Savannah handled 486,000 twenty-foot equivalent container units in September, an increase of 8%, or 35,280 TEUs, compared to the same month last year.
A new cold storage facility, located 30 minutes from the port, has added nearly 300,000 square feet of space in Coastal Georgia for protein exports and other temperature-controlled cargo.
The Georgia Ports Authority moved 5.7 million twenty-foot equivalent container units in fiscal 2025, which ended on June 30, representing an 8.6% increase of 450,000 TEUs compared to the previous fiscal year.
In its busiest February ever, the Georgia Ports Authority moved 479,850 twenty-foot equivalent container units, a 6 percent increase over the same month last year.
Colonel’s Island Terminal is now the nation’s busiest port for autos and heavy equipment, handling more than 2 million tons of Roll-on/Roll-off cargo in 2024.
The Georgia Ports Authority handled more than 2.8 million TEUs in fiscal year 2025, from July 1 to December 31, an increase of 11.4 percent, or nearly 300,000 TEUs in the Port of Savannah.
The Port of Savannah in Georgia received four new electric ship-to-shore cranes on January 25, 2025, bringing Ocean Terminal’s fleet to eight Super Post Panamax cranes designed by Finland-based Konecranes.