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GRIFFITH LYNCH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

THE GPA MOVED It was true when we handled a surge of 12 our team completed the design work and is
percent growth in our container business soon to break ground on Savannah’s Mega
AN ALL-TIME HIGH OF
in the last six months of the fiscal year with no Rail Project which will double on-terminal
3.85 MILLION congestion, bringing our total to a record 3.85 rail capacity to 1 million containers per year
TWENTY-FOOT million twenty-foot equivalent container units, by 2020. And, over the past year, we broke

EQUIVALENT an addition of 242,000 TEUs in just one year. ground on our Appalachian Regional Port, We have also set an ambitious course for the
an inland terminal in Chatsworth, Georgia, Port of Brunswick, with the goal of making our
CONTAINER UNITS, And it was true when the 13,000-plus TEU that will significantly reduce trucks traveling Colonel’s Island Terminal the number one auto
AN INCREASE vessels, the largest to ever call the East Coast, through Atlanta and increase GPA’s reach port in America. Today, I am proud to say we
OF 6.7 PERCENT. This year’s record growth is the result began arriving in the spring of 2017 with more into the expanding markets of Tennessee, have increased our capacity by 50 percent,
of teamwork. What makes Georgia’s ports container moves than we had ever experienced Alabama and Kentucky. expanding from 60,000 spaces last year to
@GaPorts successful is the entire team — from Governor before, and more than our competitors. 90,000 spaces today. With auto processors
#BigShipsBiggerMoves Deal’s Office to our Board of Directors, To complement this ambitious rail expansion, taking advantage of that room to grow, we can
#RecordBreaking
#WeSpeakBiz from the GPA to the ILA and local stevedores, This team spirit extends to our delegation we now have 10 Super Post Panamax cranes on now handle more than 800,000 cars a year at
from our river and tug pilots to our motor in Washington, D.C., who have, not for one order, which will bring our ship-to-shore crane Colonel’s Island Terminal.
carriers, rail and third party providers moment, slowed their pursuit of funding for the count to 36, more than any other single terminal
— pulling together in the same direction. Savannah Harbor Expansion Project, which is in North America. By 2020, when all the cranes Together, we share a passion for making
now more than 35 percent complete. are in place, GPA will have the capacity to move Georgia the nation’s most efficient gateway
It was true last September when we reopened 1,300 containers per hour on and off vessels. for global trade. That’s what allows us to keep
our terminals just three days after Hurricane In fact, a passion for teamwork is what fuels That has never been done on one container winning new business and the trust of our loyal
Irma unleashed its destruction across Florida, GPA’s efforts and creates a sense of urgency terminal in this country before. customers. And that’s what makes Georgia’s
Georgia and South Carolina. throughout our operations. In just 12 months, ports the best in the nation.

GEORGIA PORTS ANNUAL REPORT FY2017