The Greer Inland Port surpassed initial annual volumes projected five years into the terminal operations.
The South Carolina Port’s Authority’s 2015 fiscal year showed the inland port’s first full fiscal year of operations concluded with 58,407 rail moves. The monthly volumes peaked in June, with 6,736 rail moves handled during the month. The inland port opened in October 2013.
The June rail moves represented nearly 1,000 more (891) than its 5,845 rail moves in May.
The SC Ports Authority board announced Wednesday container volumes increased 14 percent during SC Ports Authority's 2015 fiscal year, building upon several previous years of above-market growth with strength across all business segments.
"Our ports system is one of our greatest treasures, it drives our state's economic development engine, and its continued growth is another success for everyone in South Carolina to celebrate,” Governor Nikki Haley, said.
"2015 was a memorable year for SC Ports Authority," SCPA president and CEO Jim Newsome, said. "We reached near-record levels of containerized cargo and saw strong volume and good diversification of the breakbulk sector. From an operations perspective, highlights of this year include handling the highest ever month of pier containers in May and Inland Port rail moves in June, all while delivering high reliability and logistics efficiencies for our customers."
SCPA handled 1.9 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) during the fiscal year that ended June 30, a jump of 231,473 TEUs from the 2014 fiscal year. June volumes provided a strong finish to FY2015 with 169,913 TEUs moved during the month.
Pier containers, or box volume, also climbed 14 percent in FY2015 with 138,221 more boxes handled compared to FY2014. SCPA moved 96,916 boxes in June, pushing total fiscal year volume to 1.1 million containers.