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Between 2000 and 2005 alone, the Port of Savannah was the fastest-growing seaport in the United States, with a compounded annual growth rate of 16.5 percent (the national average is 9.7 percent). On July 30, 2007, the GPA announced that the Port of Savannah had a record year in fiscal 2007, becoming
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has decided to build a two-million-square-foot import warehouse at the Savannah River International Trade Park, located four miles (6 km) from the Garden City Terminal at the Port of Savannah. The import warehouse opened on June 8, 2007, and handles overseas cargo and merchandise for Target
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would build a 1,700,000-square-foot (160,000 m) distribution center on 115 acres (0.5 km) at the Savannah River International Trade Park. The first phase of the project consists of a 685,000-square-foot (63,600 m) facility, which opened on June 27, 2007. The company also plans to
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In 2014, Savannah-based Dulany Industries, Inc. reached an agreement with Greenfield Environmental Savannah Trust LLC to buy the 1,600-acre former site of Kerr McGee and Tronox off East President Street, to develop the SeaPoint Complex, a sustainable multi-use industrial complex with the first
696:(Roll-on / Roll-off), project shipments and heavy-lift cargoes. The 200.8-acre (0.8 km) facility features 3,599 feet (1,099 m) of deepwater berthing, approximately 1.425 million square feet (133,000 m) of covered storage and 99 acres (401,000 m) of open, versatile storage. 880:. It takes 25 days for the SZX service to transit from Singapore to Savannah. The weekly East Coast Savannah Express (ESX), will provide increased capacity between south and central China and Savannah. The ESX will offer a transit time of 22 days from 547: (TEU) of container traffic during fiscal 2007–a 14.5 percent increase and a new record for containers handled at the Port of Savannah. In the past five years, the port's container traffic has jumped 55 percent from 1.5 million  798:
reported that the line has added the Port of Savannah to its MECL2 service. With the addition, Maersk Line now has five services calling on the Port of Savannah. The MECL2 service will increase Savannah's trade with
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linked by rail to the Port of Savannah. In the 1950s, the Port of Savannah was the only facility to see an increase in trade while the country experienced a decline in trade of 5%. It was chaired and led by engineer
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basin. In 2006, Maersk Line and the GPA signed a twenty-year agreement that would make the Port of Savannah one of its primary ports of call in the South Atlantic. The MECL2 service provides direct service from
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The Port of Savannah was unable to accommodate further terminal growth, which caused it to develop satellite terminal facilities and inland distribution. These facilities include:
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opened a distribution center in February 2008 that was built with the capacity to handle 4,000 containers a year, the equivalent of 7 million cases of
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facility specializing in the rapid and efficient handling of a vast array of forest and solid wood products, steel,
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the fourth-busiest and fastest-growing container terminal in the U.S. As of 2021, the port was third busiest
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to Savannah, making this service the fastest available to the U.S. East Coast. The ESX originates in
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expand the initial facility by approximately 975,000 square feet (90,600 m) in the future.
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announced that it would have two new all-water services to the Port of Savannah, one via the
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View of the Garden City Terminal and other port-related facilities to the left of the
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privately owned commercial berth on the main shipping channel of the Savannah River.
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Owned and operated by the GPA, the Garden City Terminal is a secured, dedicated
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Also owned and operated by the GPA, the Ocean Terminal is a secured, dedicated
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brand beverages. This location acts as the port of call for distributors in
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to the south. The GPA operates one other Atlantic seaport in Georgia, the
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in fiscal 2007. By 2014, container traffic was up to 3 million 
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in the United States. The GPA handled more than 2.3 million 
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In response to the growth in traffic at both Savannah and the
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and are approximately 18 miles (29 km) from the
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Savannah River
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United States of America
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32°07′43″N 81°09′07″W / 32.128705°N 81.151907°W / 32.128705; -81.151907
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