What you see there is a big container ship headed down the Savannah River, bound for China or some such place. I didn’t have time to do a good job of framing the photo, but you get the basic idea: Charming, leafy old downtown Savannah in the foreground, modern commerce floating by in the background.
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I’m here because, unlike at, say, the Port of L.A., most of the containers headed out of the Port of Savannah are actually full. They’re full mostly with paper products, kaolin clay and frozen chicken parts, but in these cheap-dollar days Savannah also finds itself exporting tractors, appliances, furniture, fancy purses, you name it. At the affiliated Port of Brunswick down the coast, they actually export cars (Alabama-built Mercedes SUVs, among others).
Here’s what a bunch of containers full of frozen chicken parts looks like (the structure around them provides the electrical connections they need to keep cold):
And finally, here’s the breakfast I consumed this morning at the Western Sizzlin in Pooler, Ga. Those twisty pale things on the right side of the plate are in fact pork rinds:
