Supply Chain Research

Container handling through Georgia Ports Authority facilities, including Savannah, climbed 7% on a year earlier in April. That was the second best performance among the east coast U.S. ports and well ahead of regional peer Charleston’s 4%. The continued outperformance vs. Charleston has been due to gaining a larger share of China-inbound traffic with a 5% rise in April vs. Charleston’s 10% decline. With the “Panama Canal diversion” effect waning competition for incremental volumes from Asia will only increase. Savannah is notable for the proliferation of similar-sized container-lines usi...