GPA director keeps focus on growth and dredging efforts at Savannah. By Chris Dupin The Port of Savannah soared into prominence in the container shipping business back in 1984, when Malcom McLean, then head of United States Lines, made the Georgia seaport, along with New York, one of the two “load centers” for his new “round the world” service operated with a dozen 4,246-TEU “Econships,” vessels designed with short smokestacks so they could slip beneath the old Talmadge Memorial Bridge, s...