Houston Ship Channel

About 2 p.m. on July 19, Vessel Traffic Service Houston-Galveston notified U.S. Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston of a towboat that capsized and sank in the Houston Ship Channel about a… Read More

Although full-year cargo volumes at the Port of Houston were down 4 percent from 2022’s record levels, the port ended the year on a high note with container twenty-foot equivalent… Read More

An international logistics firm, Deugro, has announced it has opened a new 96,775-square-feet operations and logistics terminal in Baytown, Texas. Deugro is a family-owned global firm whose name is a… Read More

Port Houston, the nation’s fifth largest container port by TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units), extended its reach well inland in June with the addition of intermodal container service by both Union… Read More

Officials with the Port of Houston have announced completion of dredging for the first segment of the Houston Ship Channel expansion project, known locally as Project 11. The first section,… Read More

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