Georgia port exec touts red hot growth from Memphis
Freight cars are added to a train on Presidents Island in this file photo. Cargo business between Memphis and Savannah, Georgia, has grown 43% in the last three years and is expected to continue growing. (Daily Memphian file)
One in five intermodal shipping containers handled at the Port of Savannah’s expanding Garden City Terminal are headed to or from Memphis, and the volume is growing by double digits.
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