For decades, McIntosh County has been a sleepy place, drowsing away on marsh banks and under live oaks. Darien, the county’s only municipality (and tied with Augusta as Georgia’s second-oldest city) essentially remains a working shrimping village. The county hosts…
Global trade made news in Georgia long before retaliatory tariffs started grabbing headlines. Once again, Georgia businesses found new opportunities in global markets,…
Brunswick’s economy tilts towards hospitality, leisure, logistics, retail and government. The economy depends heavily on international trade. The risk of local recession therefore is high, and job growth will slow even if the trade war and the federal government restructuring…
Glynn County has long had a dual personality – part brawn, part beauty. On the brawny side is the booming Port of Brunswick, which…
The adage, “If you build it, they will come,” certainly applies to the logistics industry in Georgia. For years, the state’s leaders have…
The Port of Savannah stands ready to absorb its share of the massive impact from the $5.5 billion Hyundai electric vehicle plant taking shape in neighboring Bryan County. A policy of advance planning and a dose of experience with the…
Thanks to several state-specific factors, Georgia continues to outpace the nation in economic growth. Our annual outlook for the Peach State’s primary industries is based on research from the Selig Center for Economic Growth at University of Georgia’s Terry College…
One of the best decisions Michael Malakhov made as a startup entrepreneur was influenced by something that’s quintessentially Atlanta: traffic. Malakhov and cofounder Eric Morris decided to house their company, Carpool Logistics, in Atlanta Tech Village (ATV), a “tech hub”…
Not that you need another reason to visit Savannah in the spring, but you can now register for the Georgia Logistics Summit, held at the Savannah Convention Center March 8, 2023. The summit will examine how Georgia’s ports touch every…
Another month, another (near) record. That’s becoming a familiar story at the Georgia Ports Authority, which reported its second-busiest month in October, when the Port of Savannah handled 552,800 twenty-foot equivalent container units. That’s an increase of 9.6% compared to…
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