A Transportation Mecca
Savannah is in the enviable position of being on a great river that is conducive to thriving port activities and of being only a few miles from Interstate Highway 95, the busy roadway connecting Florida and the Northeast. It’s also the eastern terminus of Interstate 16, which gives the city’s residents speedy access to Atlanta, the commercial hub of the South.
The area has excellent connections to other parts of the Southeast and the nation by bus, rail and air, with Savannah’s bustling, state-of-the-art airport featuring daily non-stop flights to Atlanta, Charlotte, Washington, D.C., New York, Newark, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas-Fort Worth, Detroit and Houston. Savannah’s port — which is the fifth-largest container facility in the United States and handled more than 16 million tons of cargo during fiscal year 2005 — serves more than 150 countries and offers shipping to more than 300 ports. Access of the port to rail lines and major highways enables Savannah to capitalize on intermodal transportation — the movement by ship, train and truck of massive cargo containers that do not need to be unpacked between their points of origin and their final destinations.
