SAVANNAH: Business is surging again at Georgia’s seaports after lagging for months behind the record-smashing cargo volumes seen in 2015. The Georgia Ports Authority reported Monday that the Port of Savannah moved more than 330,000 container units in August — a record for that month. A total of 2.62 million tons of cargo moved through the port of Savannah and Brunswick last month, up 4.7 percent from last year.
Griff Lynch, the ports authority’s executive director, is forecasting that Georgia ports will see record cargo in fiscal 2017 after volumes dipped 2.7 percent last year. Savannah benefited in 2015 from West Coast labor woes that caused cargo to be diverted to the East Coast. The Savannah port ended the 2015 fiscal year with an 8 percent jump in total cargo volume.
