Cordele GA scores a KIA Parts deal

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The inland trade terminal Port of Cordele,GA scored a large win by getting the KIA parts contract.

Per Trains:

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2016/08/05-georgia-terminal-to-receive-kia-auto-parts-by-rail

Georgia terminal to receive Kia auto parts by rail

CORDELE, Ga. – Cordele Intermodal Services, the operator of Georgia's first inland terminal, is partnering with Kia Motors Manufacturing to handle as many as 30,000 twenty-foot equivalent intermodal units per year. The auto parts shipments will be delivered primarily by rail.

Kia will move the auto parts via rail from the Port of Savannah to the state's only inland terminal in Cordele and then to West Point, Ga., by truck.

"Cargo can be loaded onto trains, moving hundreds of containers in a single trip, staged at an intermodal yard, then trucked for much shorter distances," says Georgia Ports Authority Executive Director Griff Lynch. According to a news release by Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, the partnership will save more than 6 million truck miles each year.

The Heart of Georgia Railroad and the Georgia Central serve the Cordele terminal. Both short line railroads have interchange access to CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern.