Georgia seaport closes gap with Baltimore, the top US auto port

In this photo provided by the Georgia Port Authority, international longshoremen drive some of the first Kia Tellurides to be exported via the Port of Brunswick to the roll-on/roll-off vessel Sirius, Tuesday Feb., 26, 2019, at Colonel's Island Terminal in Brunswick, Ga. (Stephen Morton/Georgia Port Authority via AP, File)

The executive overseeing Georgia’s seaports said Tuesday that a record 830,000 automobiles moved through the Port of Brunswick south of Savannah in the 2024 fiscal year, bringing it neck-and-neck with the top U.S. auto port.

The combined number of auto and heavy machinery units handled by Brunswick and the Port of Savannah topped 876,000 in the fiscal year ending June 30, the Georgia Ports Authority reported. That’s an increase of 21% over the same period a year ago.

Ports authority CEO Griff Lynch called it “a great year for us.”