Logistics & Distribution

Savannah is ideally located on the Atlantic Ocean in the southeastern part of the U.S., which puts 62 percent of the U.S. population within a two-day drive by road, water, rail or air.

Air

Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport, conveniently located off of I-95, is Georgia’s second-busiest airport with 33 direct daily flights. Direct connections to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world’s busiest and most efficient passenger airport, quickly puts you in touch with the world.

Currently in construction is a 36-acre cargo facility. The new Air Cargo Campus will consist of two air cargo facilities dedicated to air cargo activities. One of the facilities, Building No. 1, will be approximately 65,000 square feet dedicated to a single tenant. Building No. 1 includes administrative/office, package/sortation warehouse, customer service, aircraft, and vehicle and the second facility, referred to as building No. 2, will serve as a multi-tenant cargo facility consisting of approximately 61,000 square feet divided into four separate bays.

Warehousing

The Savannah industrial market remains one of the hottest in the nation, with total inventory reaching 165 million square feet in Q4 2025. More than 9.5 million square feet is currently under construction with a overall vacancy rate of 9.96 percent. The Port of Savannah also features the largest concentration of retail import distribution centers on the East Coast.

Road

Travel by roadway is made easy thanks to Savannah’s connectivity to the most extensive surface transportation network in the U.S. That includes major interstates I-16 and I-95, giving drivers easy access to the entire East Coast. Regionally, 65 percent of Savannah MSA (Bryan, Chatham and Effingham counties) commutes are less than 30 minutes and the average mean time commute in Savannah is 20.4 minutes.

Rail

Two Class one railroads, CSX and Norfolk Southern, further enhance Savannah’s connectivity with the added benefit of service to the Port of Savannah on terminal. The Garden City Terminal is the South Atlantic region’s busiest intermodal gateway, handling 42 trains per week of import and export cargo. The new Mason Mega Rail delivers the largest intermodal rail facility for a port authority in North America. Georgia’s rail network comprises about 5,000 miles of track, serviced by 28 freight railroads, including 2 Class I railroads.

Water

The most impressive attribute of Savannah’s logistics landscape is the Port of Savannah. Not only is the Port the  single largest container terminal facility of its kind in North America, it is also the fastest-growing and third-busiest container port in the nation. In 2025, the Georgia Ports Authority moved 5.7 million TEUS.

The Georgia Ports lead the industry in speed to rail and closed out 2025 with containers moving from vessel to train in only 22 hours, improving from 28 hours at the start of the year.

The on-port Mason Mega Rail Terminal handles 42 double-stack trains per week to destinations such as Atlanta, Memphis, Nashville, Charlotte and Orlando. Georgia Ports’ Appalachian Regional Port in Chatsworth, Ga. also delivered record volumes of 45,700 containers in 2025, a record 19 percent increase from 2024 before. The Blue Ridge Connector, a new Inland Terminal, will open mid-2026 in Gainesville, Ga. serving the Northeastern Georgia manufacturing center.

In 2025, the Port of Savannah handled a record 545,214 containers by rail, the fifth straight year over half a million. The Port of Savannah also handled 14,000-16,000 truck moves daily, Monday through Friday. In 2025, dual moves – in which a driver delivers an export and picks up an import – took an average of only 50 minutes on terminal. Single moves averaged 32 minutes.

Georgia Ports is in the midst of a self-financed, $4.5 billon port and inland infrastructure plan which will add five new container berths in Savannah, the most new berths of any U.S. port.

Foreign-Trade Zone 104

The Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) program expedites and encourages foreign commerce by lowering the costs of U.S. based operations engaged in international trade thus providing a secure, efficient and profitable way to compete effectively in domestic and global markets. World Trade Center Savannah is the grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 104.

The FTZ program allows the U.S. to achieve its trade policy goals, including export promotion, while at the same time supporting domestic job growth and economic development.

To learn more about FTZ 104 click here.

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