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t erminals , up 13% from


August 2018. The port has handled 443,652 TEUS thus far in fiscal year 2020, up 9% from the same period last year. As measured by the total


number of boxes handled, SCPA moved 132,233 pier containers in August, up 13% from a year ago.


The port moved 58,966


breakbulk tons in August, up 43% from a year ago. The Port handled 19,032 vehicles at Columbus Street Terminal in August, up 45% from last year. Inland Port Greer reported


14,854 rail moves in August, up 24% from a year ago. Inland Port Dillon, now in its second year of operation, had 3,204 rail moves in August, up 60% from last


year. GPA


The Georgia Ports Authority is undergoing significant expansions, upgrades and new business in Savannah, Brunswick and the Appalachian Regional Port. In a fiscal year that saw


a record 4.5 million TEUs and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers halfway through a $1 billion Savannah Harbor deepening. The GPA also commissioned


four new Neo-Panamax ship- to-shore cranes for a total of 30 in its Garden City fleet, with six more expected next year. As Executive Director Griff Lynch says, “This is the most


Port of Baltimore Sets New Record for Cargo


The Port of Baltimore set a new record for cargo by handling more than 11 million tons of cargo through its state-owned public marine terminals in the past fiscal year. The second quarter of 2019,


from April to June, also proved to be record setting, with the port handling 2,873,392 tons of cargo over those three months. That amount beat the previous quarterly high mark of 2,790,745 tons, set during the second quarter of 2018. Among the nation’s ports, the


Port of Baltimore ranks first for autos and light trucks, roll on/roll off heavy farm and construction machinery, imported sugar and imported gypsum. It ranks 11th among major U.S. ports for cargo handled and ninth nationally for total cargo value. The 11,001,234 tons handled


last fiscal year surpassed the previous mark of 10,969,308 tons set in FY2018. The latest records follow new monthly benchmarks set in March for general cargo (1,018,274 tons), the most 20-foot containers handled (95,862), and most cars and light trucks handled in a month (59,052). The second quarter of 2019


was aided in part by the May visit of the largest ship ever to come to the port, the Evergreen Titan, with a capacity of 14,424 TEU containers. The Port of Baltimore is one of the few U.S. East Coast ports with the necessary water depth and infrastructure to accommodate


the world’s largest container ships. A second deep berth is being planned by Ports America Chesapeake, which operates the port’s Seagirt Marine Terminal, and will allow the port to handle two supersized ships simultaneously. Construction on this new 50-foot deep berth will begin later this year and is expected to be operational in 2021. Recently, it was announced


that Maryland will receive $125 million in federal grant funding toward the reconstruction of the 125-year-old Howard Street Tunnel. This project will accommodate double-stacked container trains to and from the Port of Baltimore, a capacity improvement that’s expected to grow the port’s container business by about 100,000 containers annually. The project also will generate 6,800 tunnel construction jobs and another 7,400 jobs as a result of the port’s increased business. In 2018, a record 43 million


tons of international cargo was handled by the combined state- owned public and privately- owned marine terminals at the port. The value of that cargo was also a benchmark: $59.7 billion. Last year the state-owned public terminals handled a record 10.9 million tons of general cargo and more than a million TEU containers. The port also handled a record 850,147 cars and light trucks in 2018, the most in the U.S. for the eighth consecutive year.


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of any single terminal in North America.” Additionally, 12 new cranes


with a 170-foot lift height are planned by 2027. GPA has also increased


its rubber-tired gantry crane fleet to 158, with another 42 expected by 2028, “to keep the Port of Savannah ahead of record growth and demand for its services,” Lynch says. There are plans to open Phase I of the Mason Mega


Rail Terminal in March 2020. When Phase II opens by 2021, the


Savannah port’s rail-


lift capacity will double to 1 million containers. The $220 million project will expand Garden City Terminal to nearly 180,000 feet of rail and 18 tracks. Adding to GPA volumes are


nearly 11 million square feet in private construction for a total of 67.7 million square feet of industrial space in the


Savannah market where Home Depot, Wayfair, Electrolux and others established operations. As Lynch says: “The


Savannah market is an incredibly hot market now.”


Port of Montreal


In August, the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the


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Montreal Port Authority (MPA) to advance the development of a new container terminal in Contrecoeur, where the port plans to expand its activities. CIB’s involvement could lead to an investment in the project. “This commitment by


the Canada Infrastructure Bank is a key milestone in the progress of our project towards its completion,”


said


Sylvie Vachon, President and


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