USA TODAY: Could Savannah, Georgia become a home port for cruise ships?

Could Savannah, Georgia become a home port for cruise ships?

By Gene Sloan, USA TODAY

Giant cranes unload shipping containers from a ship at the Port of Savannah.
CAPTIONBy H. Darr Beiser, USA TODAYWill Savannah, Georgia follow in the footsteps of nearby Charleston, S.C., in becoming a home port for cruise ships?

That's the hope among many officials in the city, and on Thursday Savannah's City Council is expected to award $129,500 to a Miami firm to look into what it would take to lure the cruise industry, according to a report today in the Savannah Morning News.

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