Remote yard monitoring in Savannah

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Yards around the Port of Savannah's Garden City Terminal

The Port of Savannah's Garden City Terminal, a 1,345-acre site with 9,693 linear feet of docking space across nine berths, is the largest container terminal in North America. The Georgia Ports Authority moved nearly 5.7 million containers through Savannah in fiscal year 2025, its second-busiest year on record, with a record 545,214 of them moving out by rail. West on I-16, the $7.6 billion Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant campus in Ellabell, about 25 miles from downtown, has added its own steady flow of parts and finished vehicles to that corridor.

Moving that much cargo through one stretch of road draws people looking for an easy diversion. In February 2024, Effingham County deputies and Georgia Ports Authority police recovered about $1 million in stolen cellphones, food and exercise equipment from a warehouse in Rincon, roughly 10 miles from the port's main terminal gate, after the shipment was diverted using a stolen freight broker identity. A former GBI agent who now heads the Georgia Cargo Theft Intelligence Group said the Savannah area alone had seen 10 to 12 cargo theft cases in the two months before that bust. A container or chassis sitting unattended for even one shift is exactly that kind of opening.

Around Savannah, Sigma keeps an agent on every camera at a yard, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, rather than leaving footage that gets reviewed once a container goes missing. Once the day's trucks have cleared out, AI person and vehicle detection watches the stacks and fence line for anyone who shouldn't be there, and the agent on duty verifies it, gives a live, instant talk-down through the site's speakers and calls police. Yard Operations adds damage inspections, parking reports and visual seal checks on video as units move through the gate.

Also covering Pooler, Garden City, Port Wentworth, Rincon, Bloomingdale, Richmond Hill, Ellabell.