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Comcast expanding its platform
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Updated: Jan 29, 2014, 4:30 AM
Published: Jan 27, 2014, 2:45 PM

SAVANNAH — Comcast recently announced the launch of its new X1 video platform for customers in the Savannah area, including Liberty County.
Using cloud-enabled technologies, the X1 Platform provides access to Comcast’s library of live and on-demand video combined with a new on-screen guide along with apps like Facebook and Pandora.
The DVR-enabled X1 boxes let customers record four shows and watch a fifth at the same time. With “AnyRoom DVR” service, customers can watch recorded shows in any room, start watching a recording in one room and then finish in another, or have different recordings play in different rooms at the same time.  
The new companion X1 Remote app (available for free for the iPhone and iPod Touch devices via the iOS app store) lets customers use motions, gestures and voice commands to control the X1. For example, customers can swipe their iPhones or iPod Touches to page through the interactive TV guides and program personalized shortcuts and favorites. They also can shake their devices to pause On Demand content and use voice commands to navigate the guide and search for content.
For more information about the Xfinity service or the X1 platform, call 1-800-XFINITY or visit www.xfinity.com.

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Record April boosts Savannah's container trade at port
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The Port of Savannah moved 356,700 20-foot equivalent container units in April, an increase of 7.1 percent. - photo by Provided
Bryan County News
Updated: May 23, 2018, 1:59 AM
Published: May 23, 2018, 2:00 AM

The Georgia Ports Authority's busiest April ever pushed its fiscal year-to-date totals to more than 3.4 million 20-foot equivalent container units (TEUs), an increase of 8.8 percent, or 280,000 TEUs, compared to the first 10 months of fiscal 2017.

"We're on track to move more than 300,000 TEUs in every month of the fiscal year, which will be a first for the authority," said GPA Executive Director Griff Lynch. "We're also anticipating this to be the first fiscal year for the Port of Savannah to handle more than 4 million TEUs."

April volumes reached 356,700 20-foot equivalent container units, up 7.1 percent or 23,700 units. As the fastest growing containerport in the nation, the Port of Savannah has achieved a compound annual growth rate of more than 5 percent a year over the past decade.

"As reported in the recent economic impact study by UGA's Terry College of Business, trade through Georgia's deepwater ports translates into jobs, higher incomes and greater productivity," said GPA Board Chairman Jimmy Allgood. "In every region of Georgia, employers rely on the ports of Savannah and Brunswick to help them become more competitive on the global stage."

To strengthen the Port of Savannah's ability to support the state's future economic growth, the GPA Board approved $66 million in terminal upgrades, including $24 million for the purchase of 10 additional rubber-tired gantry cranes.  

"The authority is committed to building additional capacity ahead of demand to ensure the Port of Savannah remains a trusted link in the supply chain serving Georgia and the Southeast," Lynch said.

The crane purchase will bring the fleet at Garden City Terminal to 156 RTGs. The new cranes will support three new container rows, which the board approved in March. The additional container rows will increase annual capacity at the Port of Savannah by 150,000 TEUs.

The RTGs will work over stacks that are five containers high and six deep, with a truck lane running alongside the stacks. Capable of running on electricity, the cranes will have a lift capacity of 50 metric tons.

The cranes will arrive in two batches of five in the first and second quarters of calendar year 2019.

 Also at Monday's meeting, the GPA Board elected its officers, with Jimmy Allgood as chairman, Will McKnight taking the position of vice chairman and Joel Wooten elected as the next secretary/treasurer.

For more information, visit gaports.com, or contact GPA Senior Director of Corporate Communications Robert Morris at (912) 964-3855 or rmorris@gaports.com.

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