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CONTAINERIZATION, well established in most of America's North-east ports, is
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now spreading to the southern Atlantic ports. Many of these have hesitated in the past to invest the large capital required to establish themselves as container terminals, but the growing feeling was that sooner or later one would jump ahead and the others would be left behind.
Several of the big ports have now decided to go ahead and plans for spending many millions of dollars are to be announced soon.
Only one southern port is at present equipped for container handling and this is used by Sea-Land, which operates a full container service out of the South Atlantic. This port is ready to spend many more millions on the terminal once the industry starts to go ahead.
Savannah, which is ever increasing its general cargo throughput, also has plans to construct a major container terminal which could be the largest in the south. Expenditure of some S 22m on equipment and facilities is planned for it by the Georgian Ports Authority which is determined to secure the number one spot in container operations when the race begins. Charleston, too, is anxious to cash in on the container fever—at present it does a small container trade and is used by Sea-Land as another base.
The North Carolina Ports Authority is spending large sums in the hope of securing a big slice of the container trade through Wilmington and Morehead City, both of which have achieved considerable increases in their cargo movements this year.