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Ports - USA - How Savannah brought new life to its aging port
SAVANNAH, Ga.,USA -The Wall Street Journal, by Daniel Machalaba -Aug 22, 2005: -- ... By 1988, Savannah's docks sat half-empty, decimated by an explosion of Asian products pouring into ports on the West Coast... Now, with the year's peak ocean-freight delivery season under way, ships are churning into Savannah again -- and bulging with Asian cargo. The Savannah port handled 1.7 million cargo containers in 2004, up from 550,000 in 1994... now ranks second among East Coast ports in attracting cargo from Asia, Savannah is the 10th-busiest overall... In an industry where business development once consisted of little more than waiting for ships to pull up to the dock, Mr. Marchand embraced just-in-time and supply-chain management techniques. He ordered containers taken off ships be readied for pickup by trucks the night before drivers arrive... To avoid having cargo trapped for weeks at a time on the West Coast, in recent years big freight customers and shipping lines started shifting more goods onto ships running through the Panama Canal and around the tip of Florida to reach the East Coast. The circuitous journey is often faster than docking in California and sending goods across the continent by land. A new generation of faster ships has shortened the trip even more...
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