Container volumes at the Port of Savannah totaled 483,684 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) For June, an increase of nearly 73,300 TEUs or 18% over the same month last year.
Counting across the port’s full 2026 fiscal year, which ran from July 1 to June 30, cargo owners shipped 5.67 million TEUs across the Port of Savannah docks in FY2026, just shy of the 5.7 million reached in the previous year.
And in FY2026, Geogia Ports Authority (GPA) moved 541,405 containers by rail at Mason Mega Rail for the third straight year over half a million. Rail cargo accounted for 17% of Savannah’s total container trade in FY2026, with the rest moving by truck.
In support of that rail service, GPA in May opened the $134 million Gainesville Inland Port, a rail-connected extension of the Port of Savannah serving the manufacturing and industrial hub of Northeast Georgia. And GPA’s Appalachian Regional Port in Northwest Georgia handled a record 49,319 intermodal containers in FY2026, for an increase of 20% or more than 8,100 boxes compared to FY2025.
Also this year, the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) opened the Brampton Road Connector to port truck traffic on July 15, completing the $130 million, four-lane highway that links the Port of Savannah’s Garden City Terminal’s Gate 3 directly to the interstate system.
