The Georgia Center of Innovation for Logistics

The Center of Innovation for Logistics is the leading statewide resource for fueling logistics industry growth and global competitiveness. The Center creates a tangible advantage by directly assisting companies to overcome challenges and capitalize on opportunities related to the movement of freight. We provide focused expertise, specific industry data, connections to state resources, and an extensive cross-sector industry network.

A quick, real-time look at facts, figures, rates, and volumes driving a global logistics market.

May 2013

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2013 Georgia Logistics Report: A Global Perspective

The 2013 Georgia Logistics Report: A Global Perspective is the most recent installment in the effort to help keep Georgia’s logistics industry growing, thriving, and globally competitive. It is a unique and current look across key sectors of the logistics ecosystem including: Trucking, Rail, Air Cargo, Ocean Cargo, Warehousing & Distribution, Retail and Manufacturing. This report explores the changing logistics landscape at a global, national and state level for each of these sectors.

Deepening settlement gets tentative OK

April 17, 2013

The Savannah River Maritime Commission has approved a proposed settlement to end the litigation over the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project. All other involved parties must approve the settlement before it goes into effect. “This is truly a conditional permit," said Randy Lowell, attorney for SRMC. Lowell also said the commission retains the right to stop the project from moving forward if they do not believe the dissolved oxygen system will work.

Nordic Cold Storage Blasts into Savannah

April 15, 2013

Nordic Cold Storage has announced the grand opening of the first phase of its state-of-the-art storage and blast facility, located just minutes from the Port of Savannah. The site has over 200,000 square-feet of convertible temperature-controlled storage space and is capable of blasting more than 10 million pounds of product, ranging from fresh poultry to produce, per week.

WORK IN PROGRESS

March 4, 2013

Logistics doesn't exactly get a bad rap, but you won’t hear it discussed often at parties. In its broadest sense, the term means “the handling of the details of an operation.” Once applied specifically to the military, it has come to be most associated with transport: imports and exports, switchyards, trucks and trains, last-mile connections, inventory and supply coordination, truckers and loading docks – all the components of moving goods from one place to another.

Upcoming logistics summit almost sold out

March 1, 2013

In recent decades, the Southeast United States has experienced an expansion — you might even say a boom — that has helped transform the regional economy. High-tech and service industries have both grown in the region, as has the manufacturing sector, led by foreign automakers that operate in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee.

2013 GEORGIA LOGISTICS SUMMIT::Content & Agenda Update

February 28, 2013

In a few weeks we will be hosting the 5th Annual Georgia Logistics Summit on March 19th & 20th in Atlanta. Please take a moment to review the important highlights and a detailed agenda. Most importantly, if you are planning on joining us in March, please register soon as registrations are going fast, especially if you hope to secure a table. Sponsorships are already sold out!


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