Moving freight is the name of the game, Stacy Watson told the crowd at the Liberty County Chamber of Commerce’s Progress Through People lunch Thursday.
The Georgia Ports Authority wants to move even more freight in the future, Watson, the ports’ executive director of economic and industrial development said, and it has plans to do so.
Thanks to Brunswick’s facility supplanting Baltimore’s port, the GPA boasts having the No. 1 port for roll-on/roll-off, or RO/RO, and the Savannah port is coming off its second-busiest year ever. In the next 10 years, Watson said, the GPA will spend $4.5 billion to expand its capacity…