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Abbreviation | GPA |
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Type | Agency |
Headquarters | Savannah, Georgia, United States |
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Chairman of the board | Jimmy Allgood [1] |
Website | www |
The Georgia Ports Authority, which was founded in 1945 and chaired by US. Colonel, Inventor and Engineer Dr. Blake Van Leer, [2] [3] operates port facilities in the U.S. state of Georgia.
Georgia's primary deepwater ports are located in Savannah and Brunswick, supplemented by two inland container trans-load facilities, with a third to open in 2021. [4]
The Port of Savannah comprises two major facilities:
The Port of Brunswick includes three GPA-owned deepwater terminals, two of which are directly operated by the GPA.
Georgia Ports Authority opened the Appalachian Regional Port, a container truck-to-rail transload facility in Murray County, Georgia, in August 2018. The inland port serves additional markets in Alabama and Tennessee and is connected to the Port of Savannah by a 388-mile CSX-operated railroad route. [10] [11]
Owned and operated by the Georgia Ports Authority, Bainbridge is located on the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Waterway. The facility is equipped to handle a variety of bulk cargo via barge traffic, including nitrogen solution, gypsum, ammonium sulfate, urea, cottonseed and cypress bark mulch. [12]
The 104-acre Northeast Georgia Inland Port will open in 2021, providing a direct link to the Port of Savannah via Norfolk Southern. The rail terminal will open with 9,000 feet of working track. [13]
According to a report from the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business, Georgia's ports supported 439,220 full- and part-time jobs throughout Georgia as of 2017, or about 9 percent of total state employment, with personal income of about $25 billion. [14] [15] According to the report, port activity accounted for about $106 billion in statewide sales. [15] Tax revenue stemming from port trade totaled $5.9 billion in federal taxes, $1.4 billion in state taxes, and $1.5 billion in local taxes. [15]
The Savannah Harbor Expansion Project is an in-progress dredging program to deepen the harbor from 42 feet to 47 feet. The depth will allow large ships that are coming through the Panama Canal to call on the Port of Savannah. While some of these Neo-Panamax ships already call Savannah, they are not loaded to capacity. [16] As of February 2018, the project, which began in 2015, was about halfway completed. [17] The remaining work is expected to be finished by 2021, and will allow loaded ships to transport about 3,600 additional cargo containers through the harbor on each passage. [18]
The project is estimated to cost a total of about $973 million, of which 75% is provided by the federal government, with the remainder from the state of Georgia. [16]
In September 2018, the Savannah Morning News reported that officials thought the Talmadge Bridge may need to be replaced if the port was to service Neo-Panamax vessels. [19]
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