GAINESVILLE ― Five cargo containers look mighty lonesome sitting on a 100-acre concrete slab designed to support tens of thousands of the colorful metal boxes.
Yet the seven erector set-like gantry cranes and the six 3,000-foot-long railroad sidings nearby hint at busier days ahead for the Georgia Ports Authority’s newest cargo facility, the Gainesville Inland Port.
The complex, nestled on a picturesque site on the edge of the North Georgia mountains a few miles from I-985’s end, opened May 4. It is next to a freight line that is part of Norfolk Southern’s East Coast network, connecting it directly to the Ports Authority’s coastal terminals along the Savannah River…