GEORGIA PORTS CONTINUE ON RECORD PACE

GEORGIA PORTS CONTINUE ON RECORD PACE    The terminals of the Georgia Ports Authority have posted a 4.1-percent increase in tonnage through the first eight months of its fiscal year, started July 1.
   The port authority's terminals in Savannah, Brunswick and Bainbridge have handled 8.6 million tons, and are on pace for their 15th consecutive year of growth, due largely to gains in containers, automobiles/machinery and bulk grains.
   Container cargo imported and exported through Savannah improved 9.6 percent to 746,106 TEUs through the first eight months of the port authority's fiscal year. Movement of automobiles and machinery units rose 9.1 percent to 167,432 units.
   The port of Brunswick's Agri-Bulk complex has seen the movement of domestic bulk grain products jump 204.5 percent and import/export commodities rise 26.5 percent year to date, to 419,978 tons.
   Breakbulk volumes are off 5.3 percent, to 1.5 million tons, and total bulk volumes are down 4.0 percent, to 1.6 million tons.