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Georgia ports help create Bulloch jobs
Statesboro area's largest importer, Walmart Distribution Center, has added jobs in 2020
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Jamie McCurry, left, chief administrative officer of the Georgia Ports Authority, chats with Statesboro Rotary Club member Clark DeLoach after McCurry's recent presentation on the ports and their economic impact. - photo by AL HACKLE/Staff
In the two fiscal years before 2020, the number of jobs in Bulloch County directly linked to trade through Georgia's ports – including the third-largest by volume and fastest growing container port in the United States – reportedly grew by 11%, to 4,940 local jobs.
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