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GPA’s 1,300 MPH target for Savannah
The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) is targeting being able to handle 1,300 container moves per hour (MPH) on and off vessels at its Garden City Terminal by 2020.
The GPA enjoys the advantage of being an operating port authority with (more or less) one continuous berth, albeit with a zig-zag quay line. The port is currently in the middle of a crane upgrade, with 10 new super post-Panamax cranes on order from Konecranes. Four are scheduled to be delivered in 2018, and the final six in 2020, at which point the Garden City Terminal will have 36 STS cranes. Achieving 1,300 moves per hour would require all cranes to operate simultaneously at 36 moves per hour, or a reduced number working even faster.
The GPA continues to pursue its strategy of attracting logistics facilities to Georgia, to drive cargo growth through Savannah, which has been very successful. During the annual State of the Ports Address, GPA executive director Griff Lynch announced two new “major e-commerce developments”. Noble House, a national furniture supplier, will build a 630,000 ft2 facility to serve the eastern half of the US, while home accessories company Best Choice will build a 345,000 ft2 facility.
“These announcements are in addition to 3M ft2 of distribution centre space completed within the last year, and 5.2M ft2 currently under construction. This new activity will bring Savannah’s industrial inventory to more than 57M ft2, of which less than 2% is currently available,” the GPA stated.
The GPA is targeting 1,300 moves per hour with 26 STS cranes
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This complete item is approximately 300 words in length, and appeared in the October 2017 issue of WorldCargo News, on page 8. To access this issue download the PDF here.
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