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HARBOR DEEPENING MOVES INTO CONSTRUCTION PHASE

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© 2013-2015 Georgia Foreign Trade Conference and the Georgia Ports Authority. All rights reserved. CONTENTS ABOUT THE COVER: The MSC Roma, a 9,200-TEU vessel, passes another Super Post-Panamax vessel, the Cornelia Maersk, in the Savannah River channel on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. Cover photo by Stephen B. Morton. ANCHORAGE

ROBERT C. MORRIS Editor

EDWARD FULFORD Managing Editor

EMILY GOLDMAN Associate Editor

JULIE KAUFMAN DEBBIE RHODES 10 Copy Editors Harbor Deepening Moves Into Construction Phase DEBBIE RHODES Advertising Associate

PORT NEWS The Georgia Ports Authority ANCHORAGE is U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to Raise CSS Georgia from Savannah River ...... 12 published quarterly and distributed free of Foreign Trade Conference Draws Nearly 300 Execs ...... 13 charge to more than 9,000 readers worldwide.

International Auto Processing Handles 5 Millionth Vehicle ...... 14 This publication is not copyrighted and Savannah: The Southeast’s Logistics Hub ...... 16 permission is given for the reproduction or use of any original material, provided GPA’s Corporate Communications Office is contacted. BUSINESS BRIEFS 7 John Deere — Augusta Produces 1 Millionth Tractor ...... 6 GEORGIA PORTS AUTHORITY Walmart Plans New Georgia Distribution Center ...... 6 ANCHORAGE P.O. Box 2406 Tyson Foods To Create 500 Jobs in Dooly County ...... 6 Savannah, GA 31402 Badcock to Locate New Distribution Center In LaGrange ...... 7 Phone: (912) 964-3855 Kubota to Invest $100M, Create 650 Jobs ...... 7 Toll Free: (800) 342-8012 Fax: (912) 964-3921 Haring to Invest $54M into First U.S. Facility ...... 7 [email protected] Mannington Mills to Create 200 Jobs In Morgan County ...... 7 Page International Announces New President, COO ...... 8 Acuity Brands Create 700 Jobs ...... 8 New 3PL Enters Savannah Market ...... 9 OA/JLA Home Goes Big in Savannah ...... 9 20 PORTFOLIO Gulf States Adds 55,000 Square Feet ...... 18

PROFILE Trey Thompson Knows The Savannah River ...... 20

SAVANNAH: Sailing Schedule ...... 24 BRUNSWICK: Sailing Schedule ...... 26 3 GAPORTS.COM AUTHORITY MEMBERS

JAMES A. WALTERS JAMES L. ALLGOOD A. J. (JOE) HOPKINS, III H. KENNETH CRONAN BART GOBEIL BEN H. HALL, JR. JULIE HUNT Chairman Vice Chairman Secretary/Treasurer Member Member Member Member GAINESVILLE DUBLIN FOLKSTON GAINESVILLE ATLANTA DUBLIN TIFTON

ROBERT S. JEPSON, JR. WILLIAM D. MCKNIGHT ALEC L. POITEVINT, II JOSEPH W. ROGERS CHARLES K. TARBUTTON JOEL WOOTEN, JR. Member Member Member Member Member Member SAVANNAH AUGUSTA BAINBRIDGE ATLANTA SANDERSVILLE COLUMBUS PERSPECTIVE

Savannah’s Harbor Deepening Under Way

EXECUTIVE STAFF CURTIS J. FOLTZ Executive Director

GRIFFITH LYNCH Chief Operating Officer

CLIFFORD R. PYRON Chief Commercial Officer

GEORGE HEARN Senior Director of Trade Development

Photo: Stephen B. Morton (Carrier and Non-Container Sales)

CHRIS LOGAN eorgia’s persistence is paying off for port customers, as work is beginning on the Savannah Senior Director of Trade Development Harbor Expansion Project. (Beneficial Cargo Owner Sales) G The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has issued the contract to deepen the outer harbor LISE MARSHALL of the Savannah River to 49 feet, which constitutes nearly half of the dredging. Senior Director of Human Resources Recovery of the Confederate ironclad CSS Georgia is under way, which must be completed before JAMES C. McCURRY, JR. the inner harbor is dredged. The Corps of Engineers is also poised to issue an additional contract to Seni