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20-mile channel into the Atlantic, plunges 49 feet at low tide. Savannah harbor’s new depth will be 47-feet deep. Three-quarters of the project is completed, with the rest expected to be done by next January, reports say. That means bigger vessels. On Sept. 18, the CMA CGM


Brazil, with a 15,072-TEU capacity, said to be the largest ship to call the East Coast,


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The CMA CGM Brazil docks at Garden City Terminal. (GPA/Jeremy Polston photo.)


pulled into the Savannah port, a GPA press release says. Inland, the authority’s newer


projects include the Mason Mega Rail and the Appalachian Regional Port. ARP, the rail terminal about 350 miles from Savannah and a 50-minute drive from Chattanooga, Tennessee,


opened in August 2018. The state, Murray County and CSX Transportation, a Class I freight railroad, collaborated on the project.


///GEORGIA PORTS “We moved more containers


through the Appalachian Regional Port than ever before at 3,420 liſts, an increase of 1,679 or 96 percent,” Lynch says. The Mega Rail, meanwhile, is


75% complete, though operating on 50% of the tracks. The intermodal operation, nearly 300 miles from Savannah and 72 miles from Atlanta, now handles 500,000 containers. When completed, the rail will move 1 million a year. (Another line, the OmniTRAX’s 16-mile shortline, transports plastic pellets, lumber and petroleum products more than 180 miles from Wilkes County, Georgia,


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World Distribution Services doubles Savannah footprint


World Distribution Services (WDS), a Cleveland-based logistics and transportation company, is expanding its operations to more than half a million square feet in the Savannah market, with a new 280,000 square-feet distribution center in Pooler. The new distribution


center more than doubles the WDS presence in Savannah, adding to an existing 250,000 square-feet operation. Duncan Wright, president the


of WDS, additional space


said will


support business growth and allow the company to take on new clients. “Our existing facility has been at capacity for more than two years,” said Wright. “Based on the increased freight traffic moving through Savannah, we wanted


to


help support the growth the GPA is driving. This facility positions WDS for future success in the market.” Cliff Pyron, COO at GPA


said the expanding market of third-party logistics providers in Savannah serves as a magnet for new business. “Private investment in logistics extends and expands the reach of the GPA to new customers,” he said. “Not only do 3PLs bring customers with them when they locate here,


but available warehouse and cross-dock capacity is an important factor for companies establishing new supply routes.” World Distribution


Services offers warehousing and inventory management, transloading,


retail


distribution, and value- added services such as pick- and-pack, and e-commerce fulfillment at its two locations on Morgan Lakes Industrial Boulevard in Pooler, GA. The warehouses are less than 10 miles from the Port of Savannah’s Garden City Terminal. The Port of Savannah is the third- busiest container gateway in the country, the nation’s top exporter of containerized goods


and the fastest


growing major port in the US over the past 10 years. According to Cushman


Wakefield, the Savannah market comprises 79 million square feet of industrial space. Another 8.7 million square feet are under construction, for an 11 percent increase in inventory. Pyron noted there is enough land permitted for private development to accommodate another 130 million square feet of distribution center space within 30 miles of the port – nearly twice the area’s current industrial space.


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