![]() “We do anticipate the volume tapering off toward the end of this year, or slightly earlier,” Lynch said. Last month, Lynch said, Savannah worked in nine unplanned ships carrying roughly 25,000 container units of additional cargo. The port saw its busiest month on record in May, when nearly 520,000 containers units moved across its docks. The volume of imports coming into Savannah has more than doubled compared to before the pandemic, Lynch said. Lynch said in the past year that’s meant increased traffic from Savannah’s existing customers, plus new business from shippers diverting cargo away from the West Coast where ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, have been swamped with waiting ships. ports, Savannah has been struggling with a flood of imports shipped in containers, giant metal boxes used to transport retail goods from consumer electronics to frozen chickens.įollowing a slump after the coronavirus pandemic struck in 2020, trade has rebounded and kept booming amid soaring demand. Still, roughly 40 ships were sitting at anchor offshore Tuesday waiting to transit the Savannah River and unload at the port’s overflowing docks. And the completion in March of a seven-year, $973 million deepening of Savannah’s shipping channel means ships can carry more cargo without waiting for higher tides. In the past year, the Port of Savannah has hired additional workers, added equipment and increased its container yard capacity by about 25%. ![]() “The growth is stunning,” said Griff Lynch, the authority’s executive director. That’s an increase of 8% from a year ago, when the port exceeded 5 million container units for the first time. The Georgia Ports Authority said Tuesday that docks in Savannah handled nearly 5.8 million container units of imports and exports in the fiscal year that ended June 30. The Port of Savannah saw record-breaking cargo volumes this past fiscal year amid a surge in imports and West Coast backlogs that prompted shippers to reroute goods to the East Coast.
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