Lineage Logistics said it chose Port Wentworth due to its close proximity to the Port of Savannah.

Georgia Ports Authority police officers could make arrests up to 1 mile outside of the ports of Savannah and Brunswick.

The greater Savannah area is projected to grow 34% by 2045, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation.

Tens of thousands of new jobs could come from Ocean Terminal's overhaul, which will see it deal entirely in container shipping.

The Georgia Ports Authority and a federal agency are working on a big expansion of the state-operated seaport in Brunswick.

The four cranes are the biggest in use at an East Coast port, according to the Georgia Ports Authority.

Fitch Ratings expects ports will still grow in 2023, but at a slower rate than seen over the past two years.

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The Port of Savannah plans a $410 million overhaul of one of its sprawling terminals to make room for loading and unloading larger ships. The Georgia Ports Authority board approved the project Monday under a plan to expand Savannah's capacity for cargo containers by more than 50% by 2025.

More than 40 ships were waiting offshore to come into the Port of Savannah on Tuesday.

The Georgia Ports Authority said Tuesday that its docks in Savannah handled nearly 5.8 million container units of imports and exports in the fiscal year that ended June 30. That's an increase of 8% from a year ago, when Savannah exceeded 5 million container units for the first time.

The Port of Savannah moved an all-time high 519,390 twenty-foot equivalent container units (TEUs) last month, the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) reported Wednesday. That broke the previous record of 504,350 TEUs set last October and exceeded May of last year by 8.3%.

Governor Brian Kemp is heading to an industrial site outside Savannah to make what his office calls a "special economic development announcement." Sources in Washington and Georgia have told The Associated Press the project is a $7 billion plant where Hyundai Motor Group will manufacture electric vehicles.

The agency that has overseen deepening of the shipping channel to the Port of Savannah says the dredging project has been completed 6 1/2 years after it began. The Army Corps of Engineers announced Wednesday that the $973 million Savannah harbor expansion is done.

The executive in charge of Georgia's seaports is calling for an aggressive expansion that would grow cargo container capacity a the Port of Savannah by 58% over the next three years. Georgia Ports Authority Executive Director Griff Lynch said Thursday he wants Savannah to have space to handle 9.5 million cargo container units per year by 2025.