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Harveys offering customers chance to support schools
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NASHVILLE — As Harveys customers prepare to send their children back to school next month, the hometown grocer is offering its shoppers in Georgia, Florida and South Carolina an easy way to provide free educational equipment and supplies for their local schools.

Now through Aug. 21, shoppers enrolled in the Harveys Hometown Educational Rewards program will earn double points to help support their schools by using their Harveys Rewards Key and purchasing specially-marked participating products.

Additional offers and coupons for qualifying products will also be made available through Harveys Key-osk, weekly Keymail and Mobile Club. Sponsors for this promotion are my essentials, Campbell’s, Kimberly-Clark, Georgia Pacific and Post.

“At Harveys Supermarkets, we are committed to making a positive impact in our local communities, and we are proud to offer the Harveys Hometown Educational Rewards program again this year,” said Barry Robinson, vice president of Harveys and Reid’s stores.

Each time a customer shops with their personal Hometown Rewards Key card, their schools of choice automatically earns points towards $250,000 in free educational equipment. This money is divided between schools through a points system for the year, and a customer may select up to two schools for the program.

All customer grocery purchases will earn credit for their designated school with the exception of alcohol, tobacco products, money orders, gift certificates, sales tax and stamps. Throughout the academic year, schools redeem the accumulated points in exchange for free educational items from the Harveys catalog. Items include, but are not limited to, books, computers and sports equipment.

Last year, Harveys donated more than $1 million to schools in the program. To sign up for the program, go to www.harveys-supermarkets.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

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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