Port of Savannah Lands Another Manufacturer for Georgia
The Port of Savannah is a huge economic asset for the State of Georgia. The benefits are felt well beyond Savannah. Brunswick and Glynn County is about an hour from the Port of Savannah and many of the local industries, especially those in food production, consider the Port’s close proximity a critical advantage to locating in Coastal Georgia.
Below is an excerpt from an article from the Georgia Ports Authority that shows that locations even as far away as Carrollton Georgia still can take advantage of the Port of Savannah.
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Georgia Hooks Trident Seafoods
Ports, job training help lure company to State
Trident Seafoods’ new production and distribution center in Carrollton, Ga., includes an 88,000 square-foot manufacturing floor overlooked by 18,000 square feet of office space and another 20,000 square feet of support area.
Trident Seafoods has opened a $40 million production and distribution center in Carrollton, Ga., providing 175 full-time jobs and the capacity to produce 50,000 tons of finished products annually for the U.S. market.
“We are excited to add Trident to our family of customers, especially within the valuable refrigerated cargo market,” said Georgia Ports Authority Executive Director Curtis Foltz. “This is an important win for Georgia, and for the Port of Savannah.”
Savannah’s Garden City Terminal offers 84 refrigerated container racks and 814 chassis plug-ins, powering 2,830 refrigerated boxes at a time. Another 20 racks should be complete by the end of the year, adding 480 refrigerated container slots.
“Savannah’s refrigerated cargo infrastructure is unmatched on the U.S. East Coast, and is an important asset as Georgia seeks to lure more business in the area of food production,” Foltz said.
Founded in 1973 by Chuck Bundrant with two fishermen partners and a single vessel, the family-owned Trident Seafoods is now North America’s largest vertically integrated seafood harvesting and processing company.
The Seattle-based company’s Carrollton site is 7 miles from I-20, 30 miles from I-85, and approximately 50 miles east of Atlanta.
Read the full story, and more at GaPorts.com
For more information, contact GPA’s Senior Director of Corporate Communications Robert Morris at (912) 964-3855 or rmorris@gaports.com. Visit the GPA web site at www.gaports.com.
