GAMS is a privately-owned and operated company located in Georgetown and Charleston SC. With almost 50 years of experience in the transportation industry, we provide portside maritime services as terminal operators and stevedores, specializing in the handling of steel, alloys, ro-ro, project cargo, heavy-lift cargo, bulk and break-bulk cargos. Our services extend to warehouse operations and management, along with trans-loading bulk and break-bulk cargo. Utilizing our highly experienced workforce is what sets GAMS apart. GAMS prides itself as being the only originating stevedoring company located in South Carolina. GAMS has remained a valuable part of South Carolina’s port community. It is our business to enhance value-added maritime services, so that we may continue to customize best practice logistics to solve each customer’s individual transportation needs, starting at the waterfront and ending with the final end user. GAMS dedication and professionalism has helped us expand our services along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, operating warehouse facilities in Charleston SC, Georgetown SC, and Greenville NC. In addition, we are licensed to operate at the Port of Georgetown, the Port of Charleston, and have flying crews of stevedores and crane operators who operate all over the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Our crane operators and supervisors have built a reputation for consistent high productivity and dependability while handling a large variety of bulk cargoes. We offer skilled professionals who operate with safety, and environmental concerns in mind. All GAMS supervisors are certified crane operators and flag men. They are also certified in Rigging and First Aid training. Commodities handled include salt, scrap, gypsum, cement, clinker, grain, slag, alloys, pig iron, DRI, feldspar, fly ash, ATH, fertilizers, bauxite, pumice, wood briquettes, wood pellets, wood chips, sugar, mill scale, limestone, sand, coal, coke, alloys, and aggregates. GAMS has extensive ship crane experience in operations involving to or from barge, hopper, dock, as well as mid-stream movements. We offer these services at a wide range of inland and coastal ports in the Continental United States and Puerto Rico. GAMS philosophy is that no company’s logistics needs are the same. Therefore, we specialize in providing a customized solution to each of our customers.

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