The start of a single asset provider for chassis will deliver improved efficiency, better equipment, and reduced maintenance costs.

Georgia Steamship property and Garden City Terminal West will use electric RTGs.

Start of Stevedore Information Upgrade (SIU), which will optimize operations. Real-time moves tracked for vessel operations. This will reduce turnaround time.

Georgia Ports Authority stevedore partners combine to form Gateway Terminals.

Dedication of Live Oak Park as a green space for employees on the Garden City terminal.

Start of a 5-year funding agreement with the Tybee Island Marine Science Center.

Appalachian Regional Port opens, using electric rubber-tired gantry cranes.

The GPA, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Georgia Center of Innovation for Logistics sign a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at supporting the state’s logistics industry in economic development, research, and education.

Georgia Ports Begins YES (Youth learning Equipment and Safety) workforce development program for high school graduates looking to start a career.

Mason Mega Rail groundbreaking. Uses electric rail-mounted gantries. On-terminal switching drastically reduces commuter idling at rail track crossings.

GPA received Atlanta E3 Award for Appalachian Regional Port. The award is presented by Metro Atlanta Chamber to companies or projects that reduce traffic congestion, improve air quality, increase fleet efficiency, and provide other benefits.

Converted all machines to synthetic lubricant to reduce gallons used and extend the time between oil changes.

Jimmy Deloach connector opens, providing a direct link between Garden City Terminal and Interstate 95.

GPA Text Alert system begins. Stakeholders receive weather, emergency and operational alerts.

Electric jockey truck test conducted by GPA.

GPA instituted General Cargo System software, a new tracking system to process breakbulk cargo more quickly and provide real-time freight tracking for GPA and our customers.

The Port of Savannah began handling fruit from South America that had undergone cold treatment. Cold treatment is an environmentally-friendly alternative to fumigation-based pest control methods that emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

The Southeast Diesel Collaborative, a public-private partnership formed by the U.S. EPA Region 4 office, named GPA a Community Leadership Award winner.

Through a GPA sub-grant to Rail Link, GPA’s rail partner, 11 switch locomotives that started service between 1957 and 1978 were retrofitted with automatic engine stop-start controls to reduce idling.

Since 2014, GPA has aided private truck operators in purchasing nearly 200 cleaner operating over-the-road trucks through grants from the EPA’s Diesel Emission Reduction Act program.