USMX PORT ASSOCIATION MEMBERS
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2 0 1 7 A N N U A L R E P O R T
PORT OF SAVANNAH
Georgia Stevedore Associa on
Norman L. Massey, President
PORT OF SAVANNAH
• Savannah's Garden City Terminal (GCT) is the single largest and
fastest growing container terminal in the country
GCT has over 1,200 acres of container storage area, including 3,200
refrigerated storage slots
GCT has 9 container berths with over 9,700 feet of contiguous
berth space
GCT is served by two Class 1 railroads
Savannah has the largest concentration of Distribution Centers on
the East Coast and offers over 3 million square feet of warehouse
space within 30 miles of the port
POST-PANAMAX AND SUPER POST-PANAMAX VESSELS
• Savannah handled almost 4 million TEUs last year, making it the
fastest growing container port in the U.S.
• With the latest equipment available, Savannah can handle
14,000+ TEU Post-Panamax container vessels
27 Post-Panamax and Super Post-Panamax Ship To Shore
(STS) container cranes and 147 RTGs in the container yard
service the facility
Four new Super Post-Panamax STS container cranes were
delivered to the Garden City Terminal on November 22,
2017, and are scheduled to go online in 2018, with two more
STS cranes scheduled for delivery in 2020
