{"624501":{"#nid":"624501","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Freight Expectations: Growing Port Seeks Logistic Expertise","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEven in the era of high-tech commerce and increased air freight, shipping goods via oceans is still a key cog in the global supply chain.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs such, The Port of Savannah is one of the nation\u0026#39;s fastest growing and includes two deep-water terminals: Garden City and the Ocean Terminal. To handle the surge of additional freight, governments of the United States and state of Georgia are funding a 10-year, $2.5 billion plan to expand the port to serve larger vessels and a greater volume of cargo. It is scheduled for completion in 2022.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe port expansion has included massive infrastructure needs and these changes have created several logistic challenges. In July 2018, the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) turned to two in-state resources to help: the state\u0026#39;s Center of Innovation for Logistics and the Supply Chain and Logistics (SCL) Institute at Georgia Tech. The three bodies\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pe.gatech.edu\/blog\/new-partnership-aims-advance-logistics-industry-georgia\u0022\u003Esigned a Memorandum of Understanding\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to provide research and data analysis to help the GPA navigate its growth strategies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Over the past three years we were getting to know the ports management team, we opened a supply chain and logistic branch on the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus and started interacting with the port more,\u0026quot; said Tim Brown director of the SCL Institute at Georgia Tech. \u0026quot;We had the international emphasis and an international faculty with those interests, and we wanted to start working more here in the state and domestically.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEach of the project\u0026#39;s partners has a distinct role. For Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s SCL, its data research. In January 2019, the SCL\u0026#39;s research teams were ramping up efforts to analyze data to find solutions to various issues, such as helping cargo owners and third-party logistics providers streamline their supply chains. While the port is benefiting from the expertise of Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s team of data analysts, the faculty and students are able to gain real-world experience in solving such problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iise.org\/iemagazine\/2019-03\/html\/albertson\/albertson.html\u0022\u003ERead the full article on the ISE Magazine website\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to learn more about the project and how Georgia Tech is using their supply chain expertise to analyze data and anticipate problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Even in the era of high-tech commerce and increased air freight, shipping goods via oceans is still a key cog in the global supply chain."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEven in the era of high-tech commerce and increased air freight, shipping goods via oceans is still a key cog in the global supply chain.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech is using its world-class supply chain expertise to analyze data and anticipate problems on the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2019-08-14 15:49:13","changed_gmt":"2019-08-14 15:52:02","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-07-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-07-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"624502":{"id":"624502","type":"image","title":"A Port of Savannah employee working with a shipping container","body":null,"created":"1565797902","gmt_created":"2019-08-14 15:51:42","changed":"1565797902","gmt_changed":"2019-08-14 15:51:42","alt":"A Port of Savannah employee working with a shipping container","file":{"fid":"237801","name":"shipping-container-1900x930-Square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/shipping-container-1900x930-Square.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/shipping-container-1900x930-Square.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":146370,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/shipping-container-1900x930-Square.jpg?itok=P3fe22RE"}}},"media_ids":["624502"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/pe.gatech.edu\/blog\/industry-trends\/growing-port-seeks-logistic-expertise","title":"Original Story"}],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Professional Education\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gtpe-communications@pe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egtpe-communications@pe.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["gtpe-communications@pe.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}