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Even though BMW has plans for shipping through South Carolina’s SPA terminals “until the cows come home”, they have nevertheless decided to use Brunswick, Georgia’s more southern port to help reduce transportation costs for their cars arriving from Germany.

That makes a lot of sense for them, closer destination points mean reduced transportation costs, and they certainly aren’t the first to come up with the idea. Several years ago, Porsche moved their N.A. staging area from Charleston Airport facilities to the more diversified locations of Baltimore, MD to the north and Brunswick, GA to the south. Today, Brunswick is now the de facto location for several imported vehicles, including Jaguar, Land Rover, Mitsubishi, Porsche and Volvo.

But this move also alarms members of the Local 1422 Longshoremen’s Association. With BMW’s signed contract good until 2014, only time will tell whether or not they make the same move Porsche did.

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