Infrastructure
In Georgia, we understand that a company’s ability to quickly and efficiently move people and product is essential to success. Decades of investment in our state’s infrastructure has created one of the world’s most vital airports, the most extensive rail system in the Southeast, and the fastest-growing port in the nation. Georgia’s seamless network of air, sea, and ground transportation provides your company direct access to the world.
Direct access to U.S. and global markets from the busiest airport in the world
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) is the busiest, and the most efficient passenger airport in the world. On average there are 2,700 daily arrivals and departures totaling more than 100 million passengers annually. The airport’s total cargo warehouse space is 1.5 million square feet and more than a dozen air cargo carriers move over 725,000 metric tons of cargo annually.
DIRECT FLIGHTS AVAILABLE TO:
Less than 2 hours
Nonstop
70 International Cities
Commercial Airports Across Georgia
There are eight additional commercial airports for convenient air service throughout the state. They are located (from north to south) in Athens, Augusta, Macon, Columbus, Savannah, Albany, Brunswick, and Valdosta. Additionally, more than 100 public-use airports allow companies and their corporate jets to efficiently travel throughout the state.
Georgia Ports
The deepwater terminals in Georgia’s ports ensure the continuous flow of goods to and from global destinations. Providing a range of cargo diversity, these gateways move containers, refrigerated cargo, cars and machinery, bulk, and breakbulk cargo.
Savannah: the fastest-growing container port in the U.S.
The Port of Savannah is home to the largest single container terminal in North America, and is the fastest growing and third-busiest container gateway in the United States. With nearly 10,000 feet of contiguous berth space, the Port of Savannah has the flexibility to work with your schedule. The Port of Savannah is the most westerly port on the Atlantic seaboard, providing shorter transit times and greater efficiency for cargo destined for major inland markets..
Connecting Georgia Ports to The Nation:
Interstate Access
2 Class 1 Railroads
Brunswick: the No. 1 terminal in the nation for new automobile imports
A dedicated Ro/Ro facility, Colonel’s Island Terminal is the 2nd busiest port in the U.S. for total Ro/Ro cargo. Currently the port offers three modern Ro/Ro berths and an annual capacity for more than 900,000 vehicles. Georgia Port Authority recently announced a $150 million development plan to add a fourth berth at Colonel’s Island, 360,000 square feet of new warehousing, and 85 additional acres for auto processing. The new pavement and buildings are slated to be complete in 2023.
Transportation Connections:
I-95 and U.S.-17
2 Class 1 Railroads
Inland Ports provide fast and efficient cross-state delivery
Inland ports extend the reach of Georgia ports and boost the use of rail cargo transportation, reducing congestion on Georgia’s highways and lowering transportation costs for companies moving supplies within the state.
- Appalachian Regional Port provides exclusive CSX rail service on a direct, 388-mile rail route between the Port of Savannah and companies in northwest Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky. Each round-trip container moved via the ARP will offset 710 truck miles on Georgia highways.
- Northeast Georgia Inland Port will provide a direct link to the Port of Savannah via Norfolk Southern. The planned terminal will open with 9,000 feet of working track and has direct access to I-985. The facility will offset 600 roundtrip highway miles for every container moved by rail, and is expected to open in 2024.
80% of the U.S. market is less than 2 days away by land
Georgia is served by both of the Eastern U.S. Class I railroads, CSX and Norfolk Southern, along with 24 short line railroads. These rail providers travel on 5,000 miles of track, moving nearly 200 million tons of cargo each year. Georgia’s railroads work hand in hand with our seaports to improve speed and efficiency of products being imported and exported, see Georgia Port section above for details. By locating your business in Georgia, you gain access to more miles of rail than any other state in the Southeast.
Our interstate highway system provides 20,000 miles of federal and state highway. Georgia’s six U.S. interstates include two major transcontinental interstates (I-95 and I-75) and provide 1,200 miles of interstate highway.
The world’s largest cold storage network calls Georgia home
Georgia’s 60+ cold chain facilities provide a dependable infrastructure for moving your perishables and temperature-sensitive products. If cold storage is part of your infrastructure needs, consider:
- Georgia offers the 8th largest refrigerated space capacity of any U.S. state, with 178 million cubic feet of cold storage
- The Port of Savannah offers more refrigerated container capacity than any other port terminal on the East Coast or Gulf Coast, enabling it to handle 40% of the nation’s containerized poultry exports.
- Four out of the five top global companies for refrigerated warehousing are located in Georgia, and two are headquartered here — including Americold, the largest cold storage warehousing company in the world.
- Eight companies operating at Hartsfield-Jackson, including Delta Cargo, are certified CEIV Pharma, or Center of Excellence for Independent Validators in Pharmaceutical Logistics, an IATA certification for reliable handling and storage of pharmaceuticals to safeguard product integrity.
ACCESS TO THE WORLD’S FASTEST INFORMATION NETWORKS
Georgia was the 1st state in the U.S. to precisely map the availability of broadband services and identify areas that need accessibility. The Georgia Broadband Deployment Initiative is a collaboration of providers, local governments, electric cooperatives and state agencies to provide for the expansion of broadband infrastructure. Investments by public-private partnerships have brought improved services to thousands of new locations in the last 3 years.
- Georgia is ranked 5th in the nation for internet access by U.S. News & World Report, 2021.
- Two of the nation’s largest fiber optic trunk lines intersect in Atlanta, along with two major research lines (Internet2 and the National Lambda Rail).
- 85% of households have broadband internet access.
Strengthen your ability to reach your customers quickly and efficiently by accessing Georgia’s extensive line-up of distribution and warehousing facilities, and supply-chain expertise from 85% of the world’s leading 3PLs.