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12/1/2020
Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) officials yesterday announced that rail cars are now traveling newly installed track linking Garden City Terminal's Chatham and Mason rail yards in Savannah, marking a milestone in the port's Mason Mega Rail Terminal project.
The additional track boosts on-terminal storage capacity by 35% and allows GPA to build more trains of nearly 10,000 feet in length on terminal for CSX and Norfolk Southern Railway. The Mason Mega Rail project is now more than 75% complete, GPA officials said in a press release.
When the project is finished, the terminal's annual rail lift capacity will double to 2 million 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs).
"This expansion will also ensure the free flow of cargo across our terminal and beyond our gates, as Savannah takes on more business," said GPA Executive Director Griff Lynch.
Container volumes at the Port of Savannah reached an all-time high of 464,095 TEUs in October, up 8.3% compared with volumes during the same month in 2019. The performance eclipsed the previous record, set in August, of 441,600 TEUs, port officials said.
"The progress we have already made on the Mason Mega Rail has delivered significant capacity increases, and will further assure Savannah's role as the third busiest container gateway in the nation," said Lynch.