The past two directors of the Georgia Ports Authority will combine to earn $1 million in pension payments alone this year.

Rarely does the Port of Savannah — one of the state’s major economic engines — do less business than the year before. Last year, though, was the third time in 15 years that fewer containers passed through the Garden City Terminal.

As if traffic isn’t bad enough, drivers might see almost twice as many freight-hauling trucks on metro Atlanta roads in 25 years.

Georgia and South Carolina are ready to start spending to build the $5 billion Jasper Ocean Terminal planned for a scrubby patch of South Carolina dirt and sand 15 miles below downtown Savannah.

CRANDALL, Ga. — State officials want to turn a 42-acre cow pasture into a train-and-truck depot along a lovely stretch of U.S. 411 that abuts the Cohutta Wilderness Area near the Tennessee state line.