Transport
Georgia has the transportation infrastructure in place to get you or your goods to the right destination in a safe, timely and cost-effective manner, whether by air, boat, rail or truck.
Learn more about Georgia by navigating your way around the state on our interactive map.
Air Service
Georgia’s Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the world’s busiest in terms of both flights and number of passengers, with over 85 million passengers served annually. It is also a major air cargo center. From Atlanta, 80 percent of the U.S. market can be reached within two hours by benefiting from one of its more than 150 national destinations.
Atlanta is also the Southeast’s gateway city to Europe, Asia and the Americas, offering direct international flights to more than 70 cities worldwide, including to Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bogotá, Brussels, Caracas, Copenhagen, Dublin, Frankfurt, Guadalajara, Guatemala City, Lima, London, Madrid, Manchester, Mexico City, Milan, Montreal, Munich, Panama City, Paris, Rome, San José, São Paulo, Seoul, Stuttgart, Tokyo, Toronto, Venice and Zurich.
Rail
If you need to transport goods by rail, Georgia again can service you with CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Corporation that offer comprehensive rail service throughout the state.
Georgia’s integrated rail network allows containers to off-load in the ports of Savannah or Brunswick, clear customs and move quickly by rail to these terminals for transfer to trucks departing for all parts of the country.
Highways
Travel around and you will soon find that all roads lead to Georgia, with its four major interstates and 20,000 miles of federal and state highways. Georgia’s proximity translates into two truckload days or less from 82 percent of the nation’s industrial market and 79 percent from the country’s largest consumer markets. With excellent highways, rail and air service, Atlanta is a major national distribution and transportation center and the leading logistics center in the Southeastern U.S.
Ports
Georgia is home to two thriving, state-of-the-art deep-water ports in Savannah and Brunswick. More than 56 shipping lines serve Georgia through these ports to a number of international destinations.
Savannah is currently ranked the fourth largest port in the United States. Its largest container port facility, Garden City Terminal, also handles liquid and dry-bulk cargo, Roll-on/Roll-off (RO-RO) and conventional break-bulk cargo, whereas the Ocean Terminal in downtown Savannah is the state’s primary break-bulk activity center with 15 storage facilities and 11 berths for cargo.
The Port of Brunswick, 170 km south of Savannah, can accommodate forest products such as wood pulp and linerboard at Mayor’s Point Terminal, whereas the Marine Point terminals handle liquid, dry bulk and break-bulk commodities.
The Port of Brunswick’s Colonel’s Island Terminal chiefly handles RO-RO cargo, in particular motor vehicle import and export. Brunswick is one of the largest and most efficient vehicle processing centers in America with more than 315,000 vehicles moving through Colonel’s Island each year, including: Audi, Ford, GM, Hyundai, Land Rover, Mercedes, Mitsubishi, Porsche, GM-Saturn, Volkswagen and Volvo.
More information about our ports is available from the Georgia Ports Authority.