Shippers: Georgia

A new customer for the Port of Savannah, Trident Seafoods, has opened a $40 million production and distribution center in Carrollton (GA), providing 175 full-time jobs and the capacity to produce 50,000 tons of finished products annually for the U.S. market.

Georgia Hooks Trident Seafoods 

A new customer for the Port of Savannah, Trident Seafoods, has opened a $40 million production and distribution center in Carrollton (GA), providing 175 full-time jobs and the capacity to produce 50,000 tons of finished products annually for the U.S. market.

The Seattle-based company's Carrollton site is 7 miles from I-20, 30 miles from I-85, and approximately 50 miles east of Atlanta. The plant will received container loads of imported fish trucked from Savannah’s Garden City Container Terminal, a distance of 282 miles. 

"We are excited to add Trident to our family of customers, especially within the valuable refrigerated cargo market," said Georgia Ports Authority Executive Director Curtis Foltz. "This is an important win for Georgia and for the Port of Savannah."
Savannah's Garden City Terminal offers 84 refrigerated container racks and 814 chassis plug-ins, powering 2,830 refrigerated boxes at a time. Another 20 racks should be complete by the end of the year, adding 480 refrigerated container slots.

Trident customers include major Eastern retailers, club stores, restaurant chains and food service distributors. 

As the plant ramps up to full capacity, Trident expects to produce a full line of portion-controlled seafood products cut from pollock, cod, salmon, halibut, tilapia, sole and mahi mahi, as well as an array of non-seafood appetizers.

 
The new plant sits on approximately 81 acres and includes an 88,000 square-foot manufacturing floor overlooked by 18,000 square feet of office space and another 20,000 square feet of support area.

In addition to the production and research and development facilities, the plant includes a distribution center with 67,000 square feet of cold storage space to keep finished products at 0° F until shipment. A total of 15 truck bays will facilitate the offloading of raw materials and the shipment of finished, frozen products. A special feature of the modern truck bays will be sealed climate-controlled areas where trucks can open their doors and load finished goods without dumping the air in their pre-chilled compartments.

 

"We want to grow our business in the Eastern U.S. and Carrollton is situated close to our customers," Trident CEO Joe Bundrant said. "The site offered us the additional space we needed to build a modern cold storage and distribution center. And your transportation infrastructure allows us to source raw materials and to deliver our finished products to important markets in a timely fashion."

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