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Excess Capacity Trumps East Coast Port Battles for Investment

U.S. East Coast seaports have a serious overhang of unused terminal capacity. The Port of Charleston handled about 1.4 million 20-foot equivalent container units last year, just 38 percent of its available capacity of 3.7 million TEUs. At Savannah, the 2.9 million TEUs handled left some 40 percent of its terminal capacity unused. The Port [...]

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