ATLANTA β The Port of Savannah had a good October but business is down when looking at a bigger picture.
Savannah handled 449,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of containerized cargo last month, the portβs fourth-busiest October ever and a 5% increase over October 2019, the most recent year not affected by the pandemic.
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