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Texan ports enhance infrastructure with record cargo volume
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THE US state of Texas is forging ahead with a wide range of infrastructure enhancements to handle more activity in the future with recent record cargo volumes seemingly becoming commonplace.
Recent developments include not only expansions of on-terminal capabilities, but also in some cases, the advancement of deeper, wider ship channels.
As the long-time number one US foreign tonnage, Port Houston in the Lone Star state, has achieved a fourth consecutive year of double-digit growth in containerised cargo volume. The port handled a record 2.98 million TEU in 2019 while adding three new container services and two general cargo liner services. Loaded container exports, buoyed by shipments of polyethylene resins, led the way with a 17 per cent year-over-year increase.
Overall tonnage moving through Port Houston public facilities also reached an all-time high last year, rising 5 per cent over the preceding 12-month period, to 37.8 million tonnes. More than 4 million tonnes of that was steel moving through multipurpose facilities.
The number one infrastructure priority for Port Houston is the Houston Ship Channel expansion, known as Project 11, with the completed feasibility study having been forwarded to US Army Corps of Engineers headquarters for a chief's report. Port officials continue to engage weekly with industry stakeholders to maintain a coordinated effort for approval, advocacy and financing for expedited construction of the deepening and widening, reports AJOT.
Port Houston awarded US$179 million in contracts for facility investments in 2019, including for projects to enhance wharves, fenders, access gates, pavement, rail and drainage. Last year saw Port Houston complete procurement of 17 rubber-tyred gantries and three ship-to-shore cranes, while three additional ship-to-shore cranes were commissioned at the Bayport Container Terminal, where the port is adding 73 acres of container yard and initiating construction of a rail spur. Intermodal expansion at Bayport is getting a $21.84 million boost from a Port Infrastructure Development Programme grant announced in February by the US Maritime Administration.
Also, the port is breaking ground on a new entry gate facility at the venerable Barbours Cut Container Terminal, and a major upgrade of the port's Navis terminal operating system has been completed.
Recent developments include not only expansions of on-terminal capabilities, but also in some cases, the advancement of deeper, wider ship channels.
As the long-time number one US foreign tonnage, Port Houston in the Lone Star state, has achieved a fourth consecutive year of double-digit growth in containerised cargo volume. The port handled a record 2.98 million TEU in 2019 while adding three new container services and two general cargo liner services. Loaded container exports, buoyed by shipments of polyethylene resins, led the way with a 17 per cent year-over-year increase.
Overall tonnage moving through Port Houston public facilities also reached an all-time high last year, rising 5 per cent over the preceding 12-month period, to 37.8 million tonnes. More than 4 million tonnes of that was steel moving through multipurpose facilities.
The number one infrastructure priority for Port Houston is the Houston Ship Channel expansion, known as Project 11, with the completed feasibility study having been forwarded to US Army Corps of Engineers headquarters for a chief's report. Port officials continue to engage weekly with industry stakeholders to maintain a coordinated effort for approval, advocacy and financing for expedited construction of the deepening and widening, reports AJOT.
Port Houston awarded US$179 million in contracts for facility investments in 2019, including for projects to enhance wharves, fenders, access gates, pavement, rail and drainage. Last year saw Port Houston complete procurement of 17 rubber-tyred gantries and three ship-to-shore cranes, while three additional ship-to-shore cranes were commissioned at the Bayport Container Terminal, where the port is adding 73 acres of container yard and initiating construction of a rail spur. Intermodal expansion at Bayport is getting a $21.84 million boost from a Port Infrastructure Development Programme grant announced in February by the US Maritime Administration.
Also, the port is breaking ground on a new entry gate facility at the venerable Barbours Cut Container Terminal, and a major upgrade of the port's Navis terminal operating system has been completed.