Savannah MOVES meets at Bull Street Library tonight
Savannah MOVES pop-ups, a frozen Jasper terminal, a September port record and new graduation numbers
Got a free lunch hour? The Savannah MOVES team will be at Hudson Hill Community Center between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. today, and they want to hear where getting around town breaks down for you.
- When
- Oct. 13 · 6 p.m.
- Where
- Bull Street Library
- Address
- 2002 Bull St.
Savannah has never had a transportation plan built around more than cars. Savannah MOVES is the first, and at 6 p.m. the project team brings a short presentation and hands-on stations to Bull Street Library, 2002 Bull St.
The goal is one connected network of buses, bikes, electric scooters, sidewalks and cars, so a trip across town is safe and easy whichever way you travel.
Other dates fill out the month: Oct. 22 from 4 to 6 p.m. at White Bluff Presbyterian Church, then Oct. 26 at the JEA from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and at New Hampstead West Fire Station from 4 to 6 p.m. The final community meeting is Wednesday, Oct. 28, at 6 p.m. at Liberty City Center on Mills B. Lane Boulevard. From home, an online survey and interactive map let you pin your own trouble spots.
Georgia and South Carolina put the Jasper terminal on hold
Nobody announced it. Port leaders from both states agreed in a May letter to halt all work on the Jasper Ocean Terminal, the site on the river's South Carolina bank, and the deal surfaced only through a single line in an audit of South Carolina's ports agency, approved in September. The joint terminal idea dates to 2007.
The freeze has no end date. It holds until both authorities revoke it in writing, and the Army Corps of Engineers has halted its environmental work on permits.
The two states have spent roughly $20 million on the project since 2015, a sliver of the $5 billion the terminal was projected to cost. It was meant to handle 7 million containers a year.
What it means here: Georgia is chasing capacity of its own instead, with three container ship berths slated for Hutchinson Island. South Carolina ports chief Micah Mallace told legislators in January that Georgia wants "more capacity that they control individually on the Georgia side of the river." S.C. Sen. Tom Davis, a Beaufort Republican and longtime terminal backer, said southern Jasper County is "being drawn into the orbit of the Port of Savannah."
The pull already shows. Jasper County has drawn warehouses and distribution centers that serve the port. Separately, it is booming as a retirement destination, and census data show it grew 6% from mid-2024 to mid-2025, the fastest rate of any U.S. county.
September was the Port of Savannah's busiest month yet
The count: 504,015 TEUs, 3.7% above September 2025. The Georgia Ports Authority credits strong consumer spending, plus typhoons in Asia that held up ports there and bumped busy-season cargo into September.
More room is on the way. The authority's $1.6 billion rebuild of Savannah's Ocean Terminal, now past the 60% mark, will raise that terminal's yearly capacity nearly ninefold, to 1.75 million TEUs, up from 200,000.
For neighbors of Garden City Terminal, the road may matter more. Since July, Georgia DOT's Brampton Road Connector has given trucks bound for that terminal a third high-volume route to Gate 3, so they can skip neighborhood streets and street-level rail crossings. GPA President Kevin Price said the port's investments are paying off in "fluidity for our trucking partners."
Savannah-Chatham graduation rate climbs to 87.8%
Behind that average, 2,292 of 2,611 students in the cohort earned diplomas, up from a district rate of 87.2% a year earlier.
Campus results swing widely. Savannah Early College, Woodville-Tompkins and Savannah Arts Academy all held at 100%. At the low end sit Windsor Forest High at 80.8%, the district's E-Learning Academy at 81.9% and Groves High School at 76.4%.
That leaves Groves 11.4 points under the district average, the widest gap of any school on the list.