Houston Ship Channel

On June 17, the port commission of the Port of Houston Authority (Port Houston), meeting in a special session, awarded two of the largest contracts in the organization’s history to… Read More

More funding is on the way for several ship-channel improvement projects in Texas, including the Brazos Island Harbor, the Corpus Christi Ship Channel, the Galveston Harbor and Channel and the… Read More

Port Houston recently announced its goal to be carbon neutral in the next 30 years. Port officials plan to achieve a net-zero greenhouse gas footprint by 2050 by upgrading technology,… Read More

Turn Services, a New Orleans-based provider of fleeting and towing services, recently announced its expansion into Texas with a new fleeting location near Houston. The company’s new La Porte Fleet… Read More

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) announced November 22 that it had signed a $92.5 million contract for the Houston Ship Channel Widening and Improvement Project, called Project 11. Read More

Port Houston Chairman Ric Campo delivered the 2021 State of the Port address last month to a sold-out audience, which observed COVID-19 protocols at the Greater Houston Partnership’s first in-person… Read More

On July 8, a federal district judge in Houston exonerated Kirby Inland Marine from any liability or fault in a May 2019 collision in the Houston Ship Channel. The collision… Read More

The Houston office of St. Louis-based McCarthy Building Companies has announced it has been awarded three port construction projects at sites on the Houston Ship Channel. Two of the three… Read More