Savannah's best ever year

The port of Savannah had its best ever calendar year for containers, posting a 20 per cent year-on-year increase in 2010 to 2,826,308 TEU while retaining its position as America's fourth biggest box port, according to the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA).
Counter-intuitively, export volume beat imports with a record 1,488,670 TEU, mostly in frozen poultry, and accounted for 52.8 per cent of Savannah's total container throughput.


"Consumer spending remained strong during December and marked the end of an exceptional calendar year," said GPA chief Curtis Foltz.
"Our volume growth in the balance of FY2011 will depend on the ability of the economic recovery to outpace the levels experienced during the first half of 2010," said Mr Foltz.


The GPA's ro-ro Port of Brunswick continued to post double-digit increases in auto/machinery units with 40,537 units for December 2010, which represents a 21.5-per cent increase compared with December 2009 and ends the first half of the fiscal year with an overall increase of 52.2 per cent, said the release.
(Source:http://www.transportweekly.com)