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Justin Timberlake’s tour in support of his new album, “The 20/20 Experience,” is on its way to London, courtesy of the Port of Savannah.
The Georgia Ports Authority, along with logistics partners CargoGroup, OOCL and Hapag-Lloyd, loaded the popular entertainer’s Britain-bound tour equipment — including a 115-foot wide stage that sits atop two rolling towers powered by electric motors — onto the Hapag Lloyd vessel Tokyo Express earlier this week.
Timberlake’s equipment, which is worth $55 million, filled 28 shipping containers.
The Tokyo Express set sail from Savannah on Wednesday.
New distribution center opens
St. George Warehouse Inc., a leading provider of third-party warehousing and related services around the world, has moved into the Savannah market, opening a distribution center in Crossroads Business Park
The new, 160,000-square-foot building is just three miles from Interstate 95, five miles from the I-95 and Interstate 16 interchange and minutes from Georgia Ports’ Garden City Terminal.
Company officials said the facility, which features 28 truck bays, will primarily be used for cross-docking operations, serving medium to large retail customers with large capacity storage, most of it for imported packaged goods, electronics, food and beverages and other commodities.
“It was a natural progression for St. George Warehouse operations to choose Savannah, the fourth busiest port in the U.S., enabling us to better service our local and national clients,” said Anthony Mayor, executive vice president for St. George Distribution Group.
Currently, St. George provides less-than-truckload, full-truckload, and intermodal transportation services through a selection of partners. The company’s future warehouse plans include building the facility into a multi-tenant model, combined with a container freight station operation.
“The Port of Savannah’s strategic location and superior infrastructure enables St. George to cost effectively and reliably deliver goods to nearly half of the U.S. population,” said GPA executive director Curtis Foltz.
St. George operates facilities in California, New Jersey, Texas, South Carolina and Illinois as well as Georgia.
Since 2011, the company has also operated a 45,000 square-foot facility in Atlanta, which links cargo to major shipping destinations such as Memphis, Tenn.; Little Rock, Ark.; and Montgomery, Ala.
GPA Board Chairman Robert Jepson isn’t surprised St. George has chosen Savannah for its latest expansion.
“As the closest port to Atlanta’s four-million-person metro area, with superb rail links to markets like Birmingham, Memphis, Louisville and Charlotte, the Port of Savannah forms a distribution center hub,” Jepson said, adding that, in Savannah alone, more than four million square feet of local warehouse space is available, with an occupancy rate greater than 88 percent.
Senior business reporter Mary Carr Mayle covers the ports for the Savannah Morning News and savannahnow. She can be reached at 912-652-0324 or at mary.mayle@savannahnow.com.
SHIPPING SCHEDULE
Following are the ships expected to call on Georgia Ports Authority’s Garden City and Ocean terminals this week. Schedules are supplied by GPA and are subject to change.
TERMINAL VESSEL ETA
GCT MSC LUDOVICA Today
GCT ZIM LIVORNO Today
GCT PARIS EXPRESS Today
GCT MAERSK DENPASAR Today
GCT HANJIN KINGSTON Today
OT GRANDE GUINEA Today
OT USS HUE CITY Today
GCT CLEMENTINE MAERSK Saturday
GCT KOBE EXPRESS Saturday
GCT CSAV LEBU Sunday
GCT CMA CGM EIFFEL Sunday
GCT MSC VANESSA Sunday
GCT CMA CGM ATTILA Sunday
GCT ZIM CONSTANZA Monday
GCT MERKUR BAY Monday
GCT MAERSK DENVER Monday
GCT MSC BRUXELLES Monday
GCT NYK DELPHINUS Monday
GCT SANTA ROMANA Monday
GCT AL ABDALI Monday
GCT HELVETIA Monday
GCT WASHINGTON EXPRESS Monday
OT GEORGIANNA BO Monday
GCT MSC SOCOTRA Tuesday
GCT MSC STELLA Tuesday
GCT MUKADDES KALKAVAN Tuesday
GCT APL EGYPT Tuesday
GCT PETROCHEM TRADER Tuesday
GCT ZIM MONACO Tuesday
GCT SEOUL EXPRESS Tuesday
GCT EVER DYNAMIC Tuesday
GCT LONDON EXPRESS Tuesday
OT FIDELIO Tuesday
GCT NEW YORK TRADER Wednesday
GCT DALIAN EXPRESS Wednesday
OT MONICA P Wednesday
OT SAGA FRIGG Wednesday
GCT CSAV LINGUE Thursday
GCT CMA CGM MATISSE Thursday
GCT YM SINGAPORE Thursday
GCT ZIM SAN FRANCISCO Thursday
GCT ZIM VIRGINIA Thursday
GCT MAERSK IOWA Thursday
GCT XENA Thursday
GCT YM MATURITY Thursday
GCT SAFMARINE BANDAMA Thursday
OT BBC OLYMPUS Thursday
OT BAHRI ABHA Thursday