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North it comes


manufacturing distribution.”


and


Infrastructure Improvements


Infrastructure projects are


under way that will double rail capacity and significantly


Issue 1 2020 - FBJNA


Telluride via Bruns wi c k


highlights the benefits of having


America’s


largest container port and largest autoport within 85 miles of each other. Georgia provides the total package when


to auto global


increase near-dock storage at Colonel’s Island Terminal. GPA’s plan to develop another 400 acres will bring annual throughput capacity to 1.5 million vehicles in the coming years. The U.S. Army Corps of also


Engineers recently


granted the GPA a permit for the addition of a fourth berth to serve ro/ro vessel traffic at Colonel’s Island Terminal. The design phase is the next step for the project. Ahead of the completion of a fourth berth, GPA is reconfiguring Berth 2 at Colonel’s Island to optimize


GPA Breakbulk Expertise


Experience, flexibility and rapid market access gives Georgia Port Authority’s Ports of Savannah and Brunswick an advantage for handling breakbulk cargo. The Port of Savannah’s


Ocean Terminal has the capability of handling a wide range of breakbulk cargo, including forest products, wind-energy equipment, project


cargo,


iron and steel, and pipe. The terminal has 5 deepwater berths on 200.4 acres. These berths total 3,599 feet with a depth alongside of 42 feet. Four of those berths provide direct rail access via Norfolk Southern (NS) and CSX (vi NS). They offer 1.4 million square feet of covered storage and 92 acres of paved storage that accommodates ro/ro, breakbulk and container cargo. Heavy-lift and other handling equipment includes a gantry crane with 100 short ton capacity under main hook at 65 foot; container crane with 45 short ton capacity under spreader/ 56 short ton capacity under beam; barge crane on-site, available via private contractor with lift capacity of 500 short tons; 21 forklifts ranging in capacity from 11,000 pounds to 65,000 poumds with accessory attachments Mayor’s Point Terminal is a


dedicated breakbulk facility specializing as a distribution center for a variety of forest and solid wood


products such as woodpulp, linerboard, plywood and paper products. With 355,000 square feet of transit shed space and 7.9 acres of open storage, the facility can handle the largest cargo shipments quickly and efficiently. The terminal has 1,750 feet of deepwater berthing with a depth alongside of 36 feet as well as 2,000 feet of rail siding served direct by CSX and Norfolk Southern. The terminal has 10 forklifts with 9,000 to 15,500 pound capacity and


accessory


attachments. In Fiscal Year 2019,


Mayor’s Point Terminal handled 81,500 tons of breakbulk cargo. Focusing mainly on the export of forest products,


Mayor’s


Point handles warehousing for domestic Rayonier cargo, exports for Georgia Pacific and import cargo for SCA Logistics. Wood pulp


handled


for SCA Logistics is new business for the Port of Brunswick, with a vessel arriving every other month with a delivery of roughly 5,000 tons per ship. Mayor’s Point then stores the cargo in on-dock warehouses and facilitates the distribution of the wood pulp to mills throughout the Southeast via rail and truck.


GPA’s


development plan for the south side of Colonel’s Island Terminal will add 400 acres to auto processing space. – Karen E. Thuermer


its use for ro/ro cargo. In Calendar Year 2019,


the GPA added 40 dockside acres to the ro/ro operation


at Colonel’s Island. This development increased car storage by nearly 6,000 spaces and provided a nine-


GPA plans expansion of the autoport at the Port of Brunswick. (GPA photo.)


acre staging area for high and heavy equipment being loaded and unloaded from vessels. benefits


The include


expansion’s speedier


vessel processing, especially for those customers whose auto processing lots are on the south end of Colonel’s Island. The new dockside expansion will double GPA’s rail capacity


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for autos at Brunswick, adding 14,100 feet of track. In FY2019, more than 110,000 vehicles were transported to inland markets from Brunswick by rail.


GPA has also added a second


access road between the docks and the island’s south side. This provides a more direct route to existing auto processing lots and new development on the south end of the terminal. A cross-terminal road links the three vessel berths.


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