Brunswick is something I associate with pool tables and bowling equipment, but Brunswick, Georgia’s port is becoming a major car port. Its latest get is Mercedes-Benz, who dropped off 1600 cars last week in their initial shipping of imports to its new facility. Mercedes is making cars in the US, having opened up a new plant in Alabama, but some of its cars still are imported from Germany.
That will add some car-hauling work for people in Georgia and elsewhere along the I-95 corridor in South Carolina and Florida, for Brunswick is a relatively short drive from both Charleston and Jacksonville; the Colonel's Island Terminal is only 2.5 miles away from I-95. Charleston just lost some BMW car handling business to Baltimore, so haulers who were working for BMW might be able to slide down the coast to Brunswick and get a different breed of German import.
Other importers have found their way to the Colonel’s Island facility. Volkswagen, Volvo, Saab and Porsche all have offices here, and quite a few car haulers have facilities at the terminal. If GM kills off Saab rather than sell it to Stryker or another suitor, Brunswick will be short a customer, albeit a shrinking one at present.
However, even if the Saab business does dry up, the Brunswick facility seems a rather vibrant one. The one thing that seems to be missing from their mix is that their RORO facility seems to have a lot of rolling off and not a lot of rolling on; their share of the export market seems rather low. That might be something that the Georgia Ports Authority might be working on behind the scenes.
Source:http://savannahnow.com/exchange/2010-01-12...-port-brunswick
http://www.gaports.com/Facilities/Colonels...75/Default.aspx
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment