Georgia Ports Authority Facilitates • Provides Access to 80 Percent of Georgia Has an Extensive Interstate Global Trade Through Deepwater the U.S

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

...... GEORGIA RANKED TOP STATE FOR BUSINESS ...... FASTEST GROWING, LARGEST SINGLE-OPERATOR CONTAINER TERMINAL IN THE U.S...... DISTRIBUTION CENTER HUB ...... TARGETED WORKFORCE TRAINING ...... WORLD’S BUSIEST PASSENGER AIRPORT ...... ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Georgia’s logistics infrastructure saves • At 1,200 acres — with 22 ship-to-shore • Georgia has been rated the top time and money by seamlessly connecting cranes and 146 rubber-tired gantry state to do business based on criteria air, sea and land transportation. cranes — Savannah has the capacity such as cost of doing business, Its deepwater ports provide greater to handle influxes of cargo, and the economy, infrastructure and flexibility to handle megaships carrying transportation, workforce, and scheduling flexibility and market reach freight for allied shipping lines. access to capital. Georgia offers with direct interstate connections, a business-friendly tax structure on-terminal rail, and the most container • Savannah is a distribution center and targeted workforce training. ship services in the U.S. Southeast. hub, featuring 44 million square feet of distribution center space • Georgia is home to 20 Fortune 500 • Savannah is the fastest growing port — including all major big box companies, including UPS, Coca-Cola in the nation, 100 miles closer to retailers — within minutes of and Delta Airlines. Atlanta than any other, and the fourth Garden City Terminal, reducing busiest U.S. container terminal. • Skilled talent — including access drive time and increasing efficiency. to the No. 1 workforce training • Garden City Terminal’s direct links • Savannah features enough fully program in the U.S., Georgia Quick to Interstates 95 and 16 provide entitled land to build 34M square Start, as well as talent from top state efficient access to and from the port. feet of industrial space. universities, two of which are in the top 20 public universities in the U.S. • With an infrastructure plan to Nearly two dozen technical schools offer increase annual container capacity specialized training around the state. to 6.5 million TEUs, the Port of Savannah is well positioned to take on new market opportunities. GEORGIA PORTS IMPACT $84.1 BILLION IN SALES 9.6% OF GEORGIA’S TOTAL SALES

$33.2 BILLION IN STATE GDP 7.2% OF GEORGIA’S TOTAL GDP

More than 10 colleges and universities in Georgia offer certificates, $20.4 BILLION undergraduate or graduate degrees in logistics programs. IN INCOME 5.3% OF GEORGIA’S • Savannah is centrally located to serve TOTAL PERSONAL INCOME the entire U.S. Southeast — the nation’s

fastest growing demographic region. In fact, more than 28,000 companies 369,193 doing business across the U.S. rely on the Port of Savannah FULL & PART-TIME JOBS 8.4% OF GEORGIA’S • 38 weekly vessel calls give TOTAL EMPLOYMENT Savannah customers more choices to more destinations.

Georgia’s ports support a wide range of industries, including retail, agriculture and logistics. BENEFITING FROM GEORGIA’S DEEPWATER TERMINALS

DADE TOWNS FANNIN 59 CATOOSA PORT IMPACTS UNION RABUN FINDING THE RIGHT WHITFIELD JOB TAX MINIMUM # OF INVESTMENT WALKER MURRAY TIER 75 GILMER CREDITS* NEW JOBS CREDITS WHITE LOCATION IN GEORGIA HABERSHAM LUMPKIN 1 $4,000 25%-8% STEPHENS CHATTOOGA GORDON PICKENS Gainesville 2$3,000 10 3%-5% The GPA’s Commercial Corridors Tool DAWSON HALL 85 BANKS 3 $1,75015 1%-3% CHEROKEE FLOYD Rome FRANKLIN HART 575 FORSYTH 4 $1,25025 1%-3% BARTOW is a valuable resource for manufacturing ELBERT JACKSON MADISON

POLK BARROW Athens and logistics companies seeking to locate COBB GWINNETT CLARKE PAULDING OGLETHORPE OCONEE WILKES HARALSON WALTON or expand in Georgia. Atlanta DE KALB LINCOLN 20 DOUGLAS GREENE FULTON ROCKDALE MORGAN TALIAFERRO CARROLL CLAYTON NEWTON 20 MCDUFFIE COLUMBIA HENRY The Web-based tool works on all platforms, FAYETTE Augusta WARREN COWETA RICHMOND JASPER PUTNAM HEARD HANCOCK 85 SPALDING BUTTS including mobile devices. Users may search GLASCOCK

JEFFERSON PIKE LAMAR BURKE TROUP MERIWETHER BALDWIN 75 JONES for available land or buildings by any of WASHINGTON MONROE UPSON Macon BIBB JENKINS several criteria, such as: WILKINSON SCREVEN HARRIS TALBOT TWIGGS CRAWFORD JOHNSON

EMANUEL Columbus PEACH • Property type MUSCOGEE TAYLOR HOUSTON LAURENS BLECKLEY 16 BULLOCH CANDLER EFFINGHAM MARION TREUTLEN CHATTAHOOCHEE MACON • Real estate listing SCHLEY PULASKI MONT- GOMERY DOOLY DODGE EVANS WHEELER 95 STEWART TOOMBS BRYAN Savannah • For lease or sale SUMTER WEBSTER TA TTNALL * WILCOX CHATHAM CRISP TELFAIR QUITMAN LIBERTY LEE JEFF • Size RANDOLPH TERRELL BEN HILL DAVIS APPLING LONG TURNER

Albany IRWIN CLAY WORTH COFFEE BACON WAYNE • Interstate or highway corridor CALHOUN DOUGHERTY 75 MCINTOSH

TIFT PIERCE EARLY BAKER * • Location BERRIEN ATKINSON GLYNN MITCHELL COLQUITT MILLER WARE Brunswick COOK * BRANTLEY LANIER • Distance to port or rail facilities CAMDEN SEMINOLE CLINCH LOWNDES GRADY CHARLTON 95 BROOKS DECATUR THOMAS Valdosta • Tax credit tier ECHOL*S Users may also toggle between aerial TAX CREDITS AVAILABLE JOB TAX CREDITS photos and maps showing buildings Businesses that qualify for job- or This “port bonus” is an additional $1,250 and land. Those who are considering investment-related tax credits may also per job per year for up to five years for Georgia locations can now bookmark claim a Port Tax Credit Bonus, if they taxpayers with qualified increases in for later review sites on four main increase trade through a Georgia port by shipments through a Georgia port. corridors: I-95, I-16, Savannah River 10 percent over the previous or base year. The $1,250 is added to the Job Tax Credit. Parkway or Highway 341. Port Tax Credits may be used to offset up to 50 percent of the company’s INVESTMENT TAX CREDITS Check out the Commercial Corridors Tool corporate income tax liability. This “port bonus” increases the at gaports.com/siteselection. Investment Tax Credit to the equivalent Unused credits may be carried forward of a Tier 1 location regardless of the tier for 10 years, provided the increase in port level. It would be equal to 5 percent of the traffic remains above levels established qualified investment in expenses directly in the first year of eligibility, and that the related to manufacturing or providing company continues to meet the job or telecommunication services. The credit investment tax credit requirements. Note increases to 8 percent for recycling, that the Port Tax Credit Bonus cannot be pollution control and defense conversion. used with the Quality Jobs Tax Credit. UNRIVALED CONNECTIVITY

70% OF ALL U.S. CONSUMERS, OR 215 MILLION ARE EAST OF A LINE DRAWN FROM CHICAGO TO DALLAS THE PORT OF SAVANNAH IS MOST STRATEGICALLY LOCATED INTERMODAL RAIL MORE SAVINGS TO REACH ON-TERMINAL RAIL ACCESS Fewer rail miles to destination markets 44% OF THE U.S. Georgia’s ports offer shippers direct equal significant savings — less transit and access to rail ramps on terminal. With storage costs, a shorter supply chain and POPULATION intermodal connections on each port, overall reduced inventory costs. Georgia’s AND we allow for more daily departures, faster ports offer shippers direct access to rail 42% OF ALL train turn-over and timely service. ramps on-terminal, eliminating costly drays to off-site rail yards. With JOB-CREATING SPEED TO MARKET on-dock intermodal connections, we allow COMPANIES The ports of Savannah and Brunswick for more daily departures, faster train offer Class I rail service via both CSX turn-over and on-time service. Transportation and Norfolk Southern to and from major population centers in the U.S. Southeast, Gulf and Midwest. GPA terminals have the fastest westward transit times in the South Atlantic region, including overnight service to a five-state area — Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina. • SEATTLE • PORTLAND • Bismarck

• Boise

• Pierre Milwaukee • Detroit • NEW YORK • Cleveland • Chicago •

• Salt Lake City • Cheyenne Columbus • • Carson City Lincoln • Indianapolis • • Denver • OAKLAND • Cincinatti Topeka • • Kansas City Louisville •

St. Louis • • Nashville • Charlotte Memphis • Oklahoma City • LOS ANGELES • Sante Fe •• • Phoenix • Atlanta LONG BEACH • SAVANNAH • Dallas 4444%% • BRUNSWICK NEW ORLEANS HOUSTON • • TAMPA • • CORPUS CHRISTI NETWORK GEORGIA • MIAMI Inland terminals, located strategically around the state, enable cargo owners to quickly and efficiently move products from ocean carrier to rail to truck. Through • The GPA is establishing a new inland BY TRUCK its Network Georgia initiative, GPA is port in North Georgia, with a service area • Immediate access to I-95 and I-16 establishing a series of inland ports to reaching out to Alabama, Tennessee • 44 percent of the U.S. population better serve intermodal cargo and stimulate and parts of Kentucky. within two-day drive economic development. Providing better access to rail solutions lowers the bottom BY RAIL line of doing business, eases pressure on • Daily service to every major destination roadways, and reduces emissions related east of the Mississippi to the transit of goods. • 18 weekly trains to Atlanta • The Cordele Inland Port provides • Fastest East Coast connections to/from dedicated rail service to GPA terminals Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana and Texas for cotton, clay, lumber and other • Best in class service to Atlanta, Charlotte, agribusiness exports for customers Jacksonville and Charleston in Georgia, Alabama and Florida.

On-terminal rail at the ports of Savannah and Brunswick provide efficient transit for heavy cargoes and freight destined for inland markets. CONNECTING BUSINESS

The seamless connection of Georgia’s BY RAIL BY AIR logistics infrastructure offers businesses Georgia features the most extensive Georgia is an international center for air asignificant competitive advantage. rail system in the Southeast and two passenger travel, home to the When companies choose Georgia, they Class I railroads, CSX and Norfolk Southern. world’s busiest and most efficient can rely on a solid foundation of air, • Largest intermodal hub in the Southeast passenger airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. land and sea transportation that sustains • 5,000 miles of rail business growth in an increasingly • No other airport offers more scheduled • Additional service by 24 globalized economy. flights, including direct flights short-line companies to 75 international destinations BY SEA in 50 countries BY ROAD The Georgia Ports Authority facilitates • Provides access to 80 percent of Georgia has an extensive interstate global trade through deepwater the U.S. market within a two-hour flight highway system facilitating the efficient ports in Savannah and Brunswick. movement of freight by truck. Georgia’s six • Home to 14 cargo-only carriers PORT OF SAVANNAH interstates connect to 80 percent • In addition to three main cargo • Fourth-busiest and fastest growing of the U.S. population within a two-day complexes moving more than 650,000 U.S. container port truck drive. tons of cargo annually, the airport houses a U.S. Department of • Convenient single-terminal • Two major transcontinental interstate Agriculture-approved Perishables design with two on-terminal highways (I-95 and I-75) Class I rail providers Complex, the only one of its kind • Four additional interstates (I-20, I-85, in the Southeastern U.S. • Largest concentration of retail import I-16, I-59) connect Georgia to 15 states distribution centers in the Southeast • 1,200 miles of interstate highway Port of Brunswick and 20,000 miles of federal PORT OF BRUNSWICK and state highway • Nation’s busiest seaport • 5.9 million tons of freight on for automobile imports average transport via roads across • Second-largest grain facility the state weekly on the East Coast • Handles cargo for more than 60 auto and heavy machinery manufacturers

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT: Bart Gobeil Stacy Watson Director of Statewide Economic General Manager, gaports.com Development & Governmental Affairs Economic & Industrial Development Georgia Ports Authority [email protected] [email protected] Toll free: (800) 342.8012 Toll free: (800) 342.8012 @GaPorts

Direct: (912) 965 6213 Direct: (912) 964 3879 Georgia Ports Authority Cell: (912) 644-9240 Cell: (912) 657.6639 Georgia Ports

V.May-2016