Empty containers are dwelling 16 days compared to nearly 22 days in the prior period. Exports are lingering 8.4 days compared to 9.2 days a week ago, but are up slightly from the week ending Nov. Import dwell times have decreased to an average 7.8 days from 7.9 days last Monday and more than 8.5 days early last month and in October, according to an operational dashboard on the port authority website. The emergency storage yards are funded in part by $8 million in reallocated federal funds from savings on previous projects. The new Atlanta yard, for example, will avoid more than 500 roundtrip truck miles per box, with anticipated volumes of 1,200 containers per month.Ĭhief Operating Officer Ed McCarthy previously told American Shipper that the GPA also hopes to open an overflow yard for empty containers at a CSX facility in Rock y Mount, North Carolina. Containers are mostly being transported by rail, eliminating long truck trips to the port. The port authority has already activated yards at a nearby Norfolk Southern rail terminal and at the CSX railroad’s Hulsey Yard in Atlanta, as well as the Statesboro airport and site in northwest Georgia. When completed, the auxiliary yards will provide a half-million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of annual capacity. The new facilities are part of the state’s South Atlantic Supply Chain Relief Program and complement the existing inland port strategy. Temporary “pop-up” yards established near manufacturing and distribution centers around the state by large retai l ers and the GPA in the past month are helping to relieve pressure on the main Garden City Terminal by reducing unnecessary storage time and delivering cargo closer to customers.
The length of time loaded import containers are lingering on port property for more than four weeks has dropped by 53% since September, Executive Director Griff Lynch said at a board meeting Monday. 2, as temporary off-dock storage sites and customers clearing cargo more quickly freed space for new shipments to be offloaded. The number of container vessels at anchor off the Atlantic coast port waiting for a berth fell to 13 as of Monday, down from 15 a week ago and 23 on Nov.