Governor Nathan Deal, state officials and more than 350 business and civic leaders officially opened the Appalachian Regional Port (ARP) in Northwest Georgia. Located in Murray County, the new facility will provide logistics solutions in a four-state region and remove an estimated 50,000 trucks and 15 million truck miles from local highways every year.
The Appalachian Regional Port will offer a more efficient option to move cargo to and from Savannah’s container port. CSX will provide service on a direct, 388-mile rail route to and from the Port of Savannah’s Garden City Terminal.
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The new rail terminal will be worked by three electric rubber-tired gantry cranes. Each has a lift capacity greater than 40 tons and, working together, can handle 100,000 container lifts per year.
Murray County is a Tier 1 area, meaning special incentives are available to job creators there. More direct and economical access to the second busiest port on the East Coast will make Murray County more attractive to those involved in site selection.
Illya Copeland, executive director of the Murray County Industrial Development Authority (IDA), noted:
Murray County features 16 sites offering more than 1,500 acres of developable land, most of which can support multiple developments. Of the 1,500 acres, 258 acres are rail-front property.
