![]() ![]() Savannah port demand is expected to exceed its capacity within 15-to-20 years. Ships that call at Savannah transit through the Panama and Suez Canals. These sea beasts move the world’s products. Savannah docks 37 container ships per week. “The one Achilles heel we have had has been the limited depth of the Savannah River.” ![]() The GPA spends more than $100 million per year on internal improvements. “Georgia has done an outstanding job dealing with the landside components, our port capacity, the inland capacity with road and rail,” said Georgia Ports Authority Executive Director Curtis Foltz. When SHEP improvements finish in late 2017 or early 2018 Savannah will be able to handle the world’s largest container ships loaded to full capacity. The current 42-foot Savannah River low tide depth will be dredged to 47 feet with a 54-foot high tide capacity. SHEP – the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project – will deepen the existing 32-mile-long harbor and extend the channel eight miles further into the Atlantic Ocean. We will need all of them.” Georgia Ports Authority Garden City Terminal in Savannah “At some point Charleston and Savannah will reach their capacity but we predict trade and commerce will continue to grow. “We have stated many times that we need to deepen the harbor here at Savannah, we need to deepen the harbor at Charleston and we need to ultimately build the port at Jasper County,” on the South Carolina side of the Savannah River, said Billy Birdwell, public affairs specialist for the U.S. The proposed Jasper Ocean Terminal would be constructed in South Carolina on land owned by Georgia and it would benefit from the new deeper Savannah River access to the Atlantic Ocean, and the world. Make no mistake about it, a deeper trench in the Savannah River harbor and channel is a really big deal to ensure that Georgia’s port remains globally competitive, but when you look down the road just a few years there is an even more critical strategic priority: building a completely new port. Georgia already has its sights set on the next strategy after completion of the Savannah River Harbor Project. ![]()
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