USA: Savannah rail cargo exceeded 500,000 containers for a third consecutive fiscal year, while the Georgia port’s June container volume rose 18% year over year to 483,684 TEUs.

Aerial view of an intermodal rail terminal at the Port of Savannah with tracks, cranes and stacked containers
An intermodal terminal in Garden City, Georgia. Photo: Federal Highway Administration; public domain. Center-cropped and converted to WebP.

Mason Mega Rail handles 541,405 containers

The Georgia Ports Authority’s fiscal-year update shows that 541,405 containers moved by rail through Mason Mega Rail in FY2026. It was the third consecutive year in which the facility handled more than half a million containers.

Rail accounted for 17% of Savannah’s total container trade during the fiscal year, with the remaining cargo moving by truck. The port currently handles 42 double-stack train movements per week.

Across all transport modes, cargo owners moved 5.67 million twenty-foot equivalent units, or TEUs, through Savannah in FY2026. That was just below the 5.7 million TEUs recorded in FY2025. June volume increased by nearly 73,300 TEUs compared with the same month a year earlier.

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Inland terminals extend Savannah’s rail network

The Appalachian Regional Port in northwest Georgia handled a record 49,319 intermodal containers during FY2026. Volume rose 20%, or by more than 8,100 containers, from the previous fiscal year.

In May, GPA opened the $134 million Gainesville Inland Port, a rail-connected extension of the Port of Savannah serving manufacturers and other cargo customers in northeast Georgia. Together with the Appalachian facility, it expands the port authority’s inland rail network beyond the coastal terminal.

Brunswick RoRo traffic falls 12.4%

The Port of Brunswick handled 763,122 units of roll-on/roll-off cargo in FY2026, down 12.4%, or 107,650 units, from FY2025. The annual total included 713,179 automobiles and 49,943 units of heavy machinery.

June RoRo volume reached 58,599 units, also 12.4% below the same month in 2025. The decline contrasted with Savannah’s higher June container throughput and the annual record at the Appalachian Regional Port.

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