Savannah, Georgia is the city people visit for the squares and the oak trees.
Spanish moss. Historic houses. Ghost tours. The kind of place that shows up on lists of America's most charming small cities.
Drive a few miles upriver and the postcard ends.
Cranes. Dozens of them, the tall blue kind, lifting shipping containers off vessels the length of skyscrapers. Stacks of containers running to the horizon. Trucks and trains moving in a continuous stream.
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This is one of the busiest container ports in the United States, and a serious share of everything in your house came through it or a place like it.
How did a mid-sized southern city on a shallow river end up doing that? And why does it matter to a retired household in Ohio?
Both answers are better than you expect.
Let us take a look.