Savannah Port News and Photos (ship photos too!)

[KJHburg]

4th largest container port in the entire USA needs a thread and if you live in the southeast you have products no doubt in your home that came through the port of Savannah.  Photos from today. 

Notice the new rail yard very impressive.

New warehouse dressed up a bit from the normal tilt up concrete mega box. 

and a container ship passing by the new Plant Riverside district. 

[Charles Pearson]

Nice. i have become a big fan of Savannah. Fantastic city.

[KJHburg]

Looking up river from Plant Riverside at the port.  Friday.  Look how many cranes are there. 

[KJHburg]

I like Big Ships I can not lie!  They glide into the Port of Savannah quietly usually and tower over River Street many are stacked up 10-12 stories tall compared to buildings.

This past week.   First photos are the huge Port of Savannah Garden City terminal which makes up most of the 4th largest container port in the USA and the largest in the southeast.  

lots of photos I told you I like big ships!  

[rancenc]

Major port improvements have been completed.

https://businessfacilities.com/2022/03/port-of-savannah-completes-harbor-deepening-project/

[KJHburg]

Large container ship makings it way down the Savannah River to the ocean.  (and a few tugs and paddlewheel touring ship)

[KJHburg]

Port of Savannah tour by boat.  Incredible all that happens here.   This tour is awesome and one of the very few like this anywhere in the country.  Tour by OutsideSavannah. 

[KJHburg]

The Port o f Savannah tour by boat.  This is the most efficient port in the USA and rivals the best in the world in terms of productivity. 

Outside Savannah does a fantastic tour of the port.   Notice the pine trees being lifted into the wood chipper at the paper plant.   5 big container ships in port today.  

 

[KJHburg]

Check out the new Mega rail facility at the port.

https://gaports.com/blog/growing-big-mason-mega-rail/?fbclid=IwAR2LAmBkGbYAiRrxBDCLZe7dySe1jk3lUVjye8FzRKTme7D_Q2p400z_lCw

[KJHburg]

the paddlewheeler and container ship were blowing their horns at each other (I think more in jest than anything).

[KJHburg]

from the Savannah  Morning News today

""At the Georgia Ports Authority, container volume is down, but market share is up.

Meanwhile, the capacity to grow both at the same is increasing exponentially.

The state-run port reported final 2023 numbers Tuesday, confirming the fiscal year that ended June 30 was its second busiest on record, behind only 2022. Yet even as the total number of shipping containers moved fell year over year, GPA increased its U.S. market share to 11.2%, up from 10.4% in 2022 and 9.7% in 2020.

The growth came as one of the Port of Savannah’s nine berths, Berth 1,  was closed for construction and when the Ocean Terminal, located near the Talmadge Bridge, is being converted from a facility that handles automobiles, heavy machinery and breakbulk cargo such as lumber and steel to another container port.""

[KJHburg]

Busy as ever!  that railroad intramodal yard with all its cranes is so big too.  

[KJHburg]

Georgia Ports talks about bridge safety in wake of Baltimore's Key Bridge collapse.  I did not know that an older bridge in Brunswick had been hit twice in the past.  

Georgia Ports measures to prevent vessel collisions, bridge collapses (savannahnow.com)