As I reflected on 2017, I thought it might be hard to come up with enough images for a year-end photo blog. Then, I began to sift through my photos and realized just how many wonderful people I got to know, how many beautiful visuals I got to see, and how much fun I had this year.

The idea of choosing a single photo to call “my favorite” is like asking a father to choose his favorite child. They each have endearing qualities and each evoke emotions — some good, some not so good. So how can a photographer with hundreds of “children” choose a single one? The best I can offer is a handful of my favorite images from 2017 that I selected based on the story of how they were shot.

Safety has long been at the forefront of Georgia Ports Authority’s operations, but as Corporate Safety Manager Patrick Page reminds everyone when going on terminal — you must be purposeful in your everyday actions.

On behalf of the Georgia Ports Authority, I wanted to take a moment to send you our best wishes for a happy holiday and prosperous New Year, share our most recent results, and give you GPA's outlook for 2018.

A&R Logistics, based in Louisville, KY, will open Savannah’s first export facility for plastic resins by the end of the year. The project will establish a transportation and plastics packaging facility at the Port of Savannah’s Ocean Terminal to handle the anticipated significant increase in export plastic resins.

“Our collaboration with A&R is an incubation program to grow a business sector that offers major opportunities for Georgia’s ports,” said Georgia Ports Authority Executive Director Griff Lynch.