Plant Vogtle, Could Augusta Get An Inland Port Soon? (Savannah: transporting, houses)

[Hot_Mike]

Savannah is developing their port to compete with some elite competition. Could Savannah and Augusta be the next Houston and Dallas?
Southern Dallas hopes to snag inland port - Dallas Business Journal:

During construction of the two reactors the site will be recieving barges from Savannah. This could be the begining of something nice.

[chevyguy]

Barges have been coming up the river for years

[Hot_Mike]

Is there a inland port in Augusta-Aiken?

[Hot_Mike]

I think the Augusta's city leaders should look hard into this. Savannah is the fastest growing and busiest container port in the nation. I believe an upriver port could easily pick up 10-20 percent of that traffic.The CSRA could be a catalyst for construction of new distribution centers, warehouses and company offices for those who ship, receive and handle cargo.

[All4Augusta]

what is an inland port?

[Hot_Mike]

a port on an inland waterway or an inland site carrying out some functions of a seaport.
The idea is to move the time-consuming sorting and processing of containers inland, away from congested seaports. An inland port could also Being that Savannah Ga has the 4th busiest port in the nation, Augusta could play a vital part in speeding the flow of cargo between ships and major land transportation networks, which would carry goods to the rest of the nation. Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, and Chat-town all have inland ports, notice Tenn. doesnt has a coast.

[Hot_Mike]

Cordele Ga have ambitious plan to get an inland port to do the same thing some want Augusta to do. I believe they plan on transporting goods by rail not waterway. Cordele is 170 mile inland from Savannah.
Can Savannah expand its port 170 miles inland? 052809 - The Augusta Chronicle

[lilmusket]

Actually an inland port doesn't use waterways but rails. It wouldn't be feasible to move barges up the savannah river to Augusta when rails are so much faster.
This explains what an inland port does:
from Wikipedia:
"
The term inland port is also used in a narrow sense in the field of transportation systems to mean a rather more specialised facility that has come about with the advent of the intermodal container (standardised shipping container) in international transport. Rather than goods being loaded and unloaded in such ports, shipping containers can just be transferred between ship and road vehicle or ship and train. The container may be transferred again between road and rail elsewhere and the goods are only loaded or unloaded at their point of origin or final destination.
Shipping containers allow some functions traditionally carried out at a seaport to be moved elsewhere. Examples are the functions of receiving, processing through customs, inspecting, sorting, and consolidating containers going to the same overseas port. Container transfer at the seaport can be speeded up and container handling space can be reduced by transferring functions to an inland site away from the port and coast.
Distribution may also be made more efficient by setting up the link between inland site and seaport as, say, a high-capacity rail link with a lower unit cost than sending containers individually by road. The containers are still collected from their origins or distributed to their ultimate destinations by road with the transfer happening at the inland site.
An Inland Port' is just such an inland site linked to a seaport. This kind of inland port does not require a waterway. It is often written with initial capitals to indicate a difference to the common usage. Key features of an Inland Port are the transfer of containers between different modes of transportation (intermodal transfer) and the processing of international trade. This differentiates an inland port from a container depot or transport hub.[2]
The term inland port may also be used for a similar model of a site linked to an airport or land border crossing rather than a seaport.
The definition of inland port in the jargon of the transportation and logistics industries is:

"An Inland Port is a physical site located away from traditional land, air and coastal borders with the vision to facilitate and process international trade through strategic investment in multi-modal transportation assets and by promoting value-added services as goods move through the supply chain". — Center for Transportation Research, University of Texas.[3]

Inland Ports may also be referred to as dry ports or intermodal hubs.

Advantages of inland location

The idea is to move the time-consuming sorting and processing of containers inland, away from congested seaports.
An inland port could also speed the flow of cargo between ships and major land transportation networks, which would carry goods to the rest of the country

[Hot_Mike]

Nah, an inland port could be both; rail and waterway look it up.This way of transport also has great untapped capacity. Another advantage of waterway transport for goods which are not time-sensitive is that it costs less and allows large volumes to be shipped as compared to road or rail: A single shipload is the equivalent of 40 lorry-trailer units or 40 rail containers.

[lilmusket]

Originally Posted by Hot_Mike

Nah, an inland port could be both; rail and waterway look it up.This way of transport also has great untapped capacity. Another advantage of waterway transport for goods which are not time-sensitive is that it costs less and allows large volumes to be shipped as compared to road or rail: A single shipload is the equivalent of 40 lorry-trailer units or 40 rail containers.

You know how long it would take to get barges up the Savannah? Makes no sense to do this when there is adequate interstate and rail infrastructure that can move containers more cheaply can quickly. The need for barges to travel up to Augusta dies out with the advent of standardized container shipping... this would be akin to using steam locomotives.