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Georgia’s Transportation System. How does Transportation affect Cost?. Send a Document … A Stamp costs 47¢ (7-10 days) A Three-Day Delivery is $10 Overnight Costs $50 Freight … Sent by Truck? Sent by Plane? Sent by Rail ?
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How does Transportation affect Cost? • Send a Document… A Stamp costs 47¢ (7-10 days) A Three-Day Delivery is $10 Overnight Costs $50 • Freight … Sent by Truck? Sent by Plane? Sent by Rail ? Taken by Cargo Ship?
Modern Methods • Super Highways • Trucks • Trains • Cargo Ships • Video
Economic Impact • Georgia’s two deep water ports – Savannah and Brunswick • Generate over $1.8 Billion in annual income. • Provide over 81,000 jobs and pay $585 million in taxes. • Over 90 steamship lines serve Georgia Ports. • 100 Trucking companies serve metropolitan Georgia. • More than 25,000 Interstate truckers serve the state. • Two major rail lines operate in Georgia • From Georgia, goods are two truckload days from 82% • Of the industrial and 79% of the largest consumer markets.
Georgia’s Transportation • Located at the crossroads of north-south and east-west travel in North America, Georgia is a natural launching point from which people and products are quickly transported via air, ground and ocean among the Americas, Europe and Asia.