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The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) is the port authority for the State of Georgia. It was founded by an act of the Georgia General Assembly in 1945 and chaired by Blake R. Van Leer . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The GPA operates all seven of Georgia's rail and sea port facilities.
The three-day ILA strike ended late Thursday after the United States Maritime Alliance delivered an offer of a 62% increase in wages over a six-year period.
Before the longshoremen’s strike began, the ports were forced to limit operations after Hurricane Helene struck South Georgia Sept. 27 with high winds, heavy rain, and severe flooding. Show comments
Georgia Ports Authority intermodal terminal at the Port of Savannah. In Canada, the United States and Spain, a port authority (less commonly a port district) is a governmental or quasi-governmental public authority for a special-purpose district usually formed by a legislative body (or bodies) to operate ports and other transportation infrastructure.
The state also manages three interior ports linked to the Gulf of Mexico: Port Bainbridge, Port Columbus, and a facility at Cordele, Georgia linked by rail to the Port of Savannah. [7] In the 1950s, the Port of Savannah was the only facility to see an increase in trade while the country experienced a decline in trade of 5%. [ 8 ]
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Last week GPA announced its intention to fund a new initiative called the Port of Savannah Area Workforce Housing Initiative.