Joint Ga-SC port inches ahead, too slowly for some  Ga-SC board
approves money for new Savannah River port to inch ahead; some
say pace too slow  Associated Press  SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -- Plans
by Georgia and South Carolina to build a shared terminal for
cargo ships on the Savannah River inched forward Monday with an
agreement to spend $748,000 on studies and consulting work in
the next year. Local officials, hungry for the jobs a new port
would bring, complained the states are dragging their feet.
"They're stalling under whatever pretext they can," said Tom
Johnson, a councilman for Jasper County, S.C., where the
proposed $3.3 billion port terminal would be built. "It's the
same thing they've been doing since 2007."  The board of port
executives from both states that oversees the Jasper County
project approved its budget for the coming fiscal year after an
economic study indicated the investment would pay off.
Consultants concluded the new port could be finished by 2026,
not long before its sister ports in Sa