2 Years After Near-$1 Billion Project, Time and Tides Threaten Port of Savannah’s Viability

Sorry to dredge it up again, but the lower Savannah River needs to be dredged up … again. Eighteen months after completing a 25-year, $973 million expansion that deepened its ship channel by 5 feet and two years to the day after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp hailed the massive project as a “once-in-a-generation milestone,” time and tides threaten to make the bustling port a backwater in years to come. Mr. Kemp and Georgia Port Authority officials made that new pitch for another Port of Savannah dredging project on March 25 to a Congressional delegation led by House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chair Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) and urged on by Reps. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) and Mike Collins (R-Ga.)....