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Big Ship Ready: Yes
Rail: BNSF, UP
Highways: I-10, I-45, U.S./I-69
Days to China: 24
Top Exports: Plastics, Petroleum,
Cargo Types: Containers, Break Bulk, Dry Bulk
What infrastructure additions has the port made to support shippers over the past two years?
In general, we’ve begun a $700-800 million phasing redevelopment at our Barbours Cut terminal. Just recently, we’ve completed 1,300 feet of renovated wharf in preparation for four new Super Post-Panamax cranes that are actually fully constructed and on the water now, headed to Houston and will arrive in early May.
What do you have in place to get trucks in and out fast?
A recent, significant addition has been a $35 million gate facility at our Bayport terminal. It’s state-of-the-art with a new operating system that allows for expedient service for our truckers [to get] in and out of our facility. We average about 35-minute turnarounds.
What exciting developments are on the horizon?
The excitement is not just the long term opportunity of a growing population, the energy community or expansion of the Panama Canal but the culture we have here; how our business stakeholders—everyone from the pilots to the Army Corps of Engineers to our public officials—are willing to serve to move things ahead.
