Port of Savannah

Savannah, Georgia — Port Code 1703

Imports clearing through Port of Savannah are processed by US Customs and Border Protection at the Savannah, Georgia.

Official CBP port page: https://www.cbp.gov/about/contact/ports/savannah-georgia-1703

FTZ 104 — World Trade Center Savannah, LLC

FTZ 104 has World Trade Center Savannah, LLC as grantee. Its approved service area is Bulloch, Bryan, Candler, Chatham, Columbia, Effingham, Emanuel, Evans, Jenkins, Liberty, Long, Richmond, Screven, Tattnall, Toombs, and Treutlen Counties and a portion of Burke County (FTZ Board, OFIS). Goods in an activated FTZ site are considered in foreign-trade status: duty-free treatment is accorded items that are re-exported and duty payment is deferred on items sold in the U.S. market. Under 19 CFR 182.53, certain goods withdrawn for export to Canada or Mexico are subject to US duty under the USMCA duty-deferral rules.

Service area: Bulloch, Bryan, Candler, Chatham, Columbia, Effingham, Emanuel, Evans, Jenkins, Liberty, Long, Richmond, Screven, Tattnall, Toombs, and Treutlen Counties and a portion of Burke County

FTZ Board record: https://ofis.trade.gov/Zones/Details/174

Under 19 U.S.C. 1557(a), merchandise subject to duty, with the exception of perishable articles and explosive substances other than firecrackers, may be withdrawn at any time within 5 years from the date of importation, or such longer period as CBP may allow. Duty is paid when it is withdrawn for consumption. Merchandise withdrawn for exportation, or destroyed under CBP supervision (19 U.S.C. 1557(c)), is not subject to duty.

A Class 3 public bonded warehouse (19 CFR 19.1) stores imported merchandise for any importer; no FTZ Board application is involved. See What Is a Bonded Warehouse? for the comparison.

Georgia Ports Authority reported nearly 5.7 million TEUs in 2025, an increase of 2.6 percent or 146,000 TEUs compared to 2024, its second busiest year ever, second only to 2022.

Source: Georgia Ports Authority — Port of Savannah achieves second busiest year ever (27 Jan 2026 press release)

Georgia Ports Authority describes Savannah as handling 39 weekly container services to global destinations, the most of any port on the South Atlantic or Gulf Coasts, and having achieved its second busiest year ever in 2025, second only to 2022.

Source: Georgia Ports Authority — Port of Savannah achieves second busiest year ever (27 Jan 2026 press release)

Georgia partially taxes business inventory; over sixty percent of Georgia counties and cities have adopted freeport exemptions at some level. See the Georgia state page and the bonded warehouse and FTZ guides for duty deferral options. Savannah handled a record 545,214 containers by rail in 2025, the fifth straight year over half a million.

See the Georgia state page for inventory tax detail.