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U.S. Senator Ted Cruz visits Port Houston leadership and industry stakeholders about the #HoustonShipChannel Expansion Project. “The Port of Houston is the crown jewel of the Texas economy,” Cruz says.
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Mr. Laurentino Cortizo Cohen, @presidenciapma, made a historic visit to #PortHouston on Thursday, highlighting the importance of the connection between @thepanamacanal and the Houston Ship Channel. Read more: bit.ly/3erxXqa
ALT Panama President Laurentino Cortizo Cohen sitting next to Port Houston Executive Director Roger Guenther
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Sen. Ted Cruz Supports #HoustonShipChannel Expansion Project. bit.ly/32ZpT7T
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Exciting News! @Port_Houston welcomes the @USDOT @SecretaryPete Buttigieg to Houston for a momentous announcement. Tune in tomorrow for live coverage via our YouTube channel at 9am CST to be part of this celebration. bit.ly/3OFNWU2
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Friday, July 19, 2024, 7:25 AM
Due to major technology outages involving the system Crowdstrike, Port Houston’s Barbours Cut and Bayport Container Terminals are closed this morning. We are actively working to address the issue and anticipate opening our gates later this morning.
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Thank you for the kind words and contributions to this great infrastructure project @SecretaryPete @JacksonLeeTX18 @RepSylviaGarcia @DOTMARAD #Bayport #wharf6 #supplychain
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Port Houston Commission, leadership and staff welcome U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi with U.S. House Reps Sylvia Garcia and Sheila Jackson Lee for #infrastructure roundtable. #Houston #PortHOU
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#Houston businessman Ric Campo ushers in a new era of #port leadership as he is formally sworn in as #PortHOU Chairman alongside #HarrisCounty Judge Lina Hidalgo and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. @Lina4HC @SylvesterTurner
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Today in 1949, Port Houston put an 85-foot inspection boat called the “SAM HOUSTON” into operation. The Sam Houston Boat Tour has seen over 2 million visitors from all over the world. Happy 72nd anniversary to the Sam Houston Boat Tour! 🚢#ThrowbackSaturday #SamHouston #PortHOU
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The MSC Ludovica called our Bayport Terminal this week with bright, colorful containers. This vessel is on the Indus Express service connecting Houston to the Middle East. We thank the operations personnel and labor working around the clock to support our supply chains. @MSCCargo
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@Port_Houston was honored to host @USDOT @SecretaryPete Buttigieg, and elected officials at our Bayport Container Terminal to celebrate the ribbon cutting of Wharf 6! This wharf will add significant capacity in our terminals. Read more: bit.ly/3rW4ezg
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In continuation of the new CMA CGM and Marfret MedCaribe service, the M/V Alexis called the Bayport Container Terminal this weekend. @cmacgm #shipsinpics
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e-commerce cargo is booming and moving through Port Houston! The Star Lygra general cargo ship arrived to our Turning Basin terminal with some unusually happy TEUs. Can you take a guess?
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The Maersk Seletar arrived this past Friday at Port Houston's Bayport Terminal. This vessel was built in 2007 with a carrying capacity of 6,478 TEUs and is sailing under the USA flag 🇺🇸
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#PortHOU is committed to furthering maritime #education in the #Houston region. The port participated during a #Maritime Letter of Intent signing ceremony for the launch of a #maritime degree progression program. @UHDowntown @HCCDistrict @HoustonISD
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Port Houston would like to thank the community and all of our industry partners for your kindness and support during Hurricane Harvey.
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Port Houston has received nearly $80 million in a grant from the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) program. The money will be used to restore and improve wharf and yard space at our Barbours Cut Container Terminal. Read all about it here:
bit.ly/30Ryk7H
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The CMA CGM La Scala called Port Houston's Bayport Container Terminal recently and departed carrying 5,782 TEUs. This vessel is on the PEX 3 all-water service. Thank you to all the workers making vessel operations like this possible during this critical time. #operations #ports
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Port Houston received several containers of storm relief supplies from our friends at @GaPorts! #ThankYou #HoustonStrong #TexasProud
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More container cargo arrives at Port Houston! Check out the fully loaded CMA CGM Melisande transiting inbound with 8,533 TEUs! This vessel is on the PEX 3 service. Thanks to the front line workers keeping cargo moving across our docks during these challenging times. #shipping
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Bayport and Barbours Cut Container Terminals will not open today or tonight due to a hardware failure. We’re working diligently to restore our systems and will provide updates as soon as we can. Click here to read the full notice: bit.ly/3f5w2bs
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Nothing better than an evening sunset overlooking the Port! 🌇#sunsetviews #porthoulife #besthoustonviews #POHA
ALT Sunset view of Turning Basin Terminal at Port Houston
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It’s #AmericanWindWeek! #Didyouknow – Port Houston facilities are equipped to handle #windpower products. #Texas is a leading state in the nation for wind #energy, and many of the materials needed to supply that industry move across Port Houston’s docks.
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More boxes have arrived at Port Houston! The @cmacgm Bianca called our Bayport Terminal with up to seven rows of stacked containers. This vessel is on the PEX 3 service with a carrying capacity of 8,533 TEUs. Thank you to the essential workers supporting our vessel operations.
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Yesterday was busy day for @Port_Houston’s Bayport Container Terminal. Our team serviced three @cmacgm ships at our wharfs. CMA CGM Tancredi, CMA CGM Attila, and CMA CGM Nerval. #containers #Bayport #Portviews #busyterminal #operations #PortHOU
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@Port_Houston recently welcomed its first-ever zero-emissions drayage truck in partnership with #SunburstTruckLines & @nikolamotor. This truck is currently undergoing testing as part of the pilot program to introduce cleaner equipment to port operations. bit.ly/3xAbOjp
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Congrats to Texas’ Senior Senator @JohnCornyn for receiving the American Association of Port Authorities “Port Person of the Year” Award! #TexasProud @AAPA_Seaports
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#CMACGMLaScala arrived at Port Houston yesterday from Busan New Port, South Korea. It’s a large container ship built in 2010 and is sailing under the Malta flag🇲🇹. It’s carrying capacity is 8,465 TEUs and overall length is 334.04 meters.
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Tribute was paid by CMA CGM Group to Jacques R. Saadé, its founder chairman, as the 30,000 employees of the company observed a minute of silence and the ships in the group sounded one last salute. #CMACGM @cmacgm bit.ly/2MF44mc
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To everyone working on the frontlines at the Port of Houston every day, we thank you for stepping up to the plate when it matters the most. ❤️
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9/14/21 6:15pm Weather Update: All Port Houston terminals, including Turning Basin Terminal, Barbours Cut, and Bayport Container Terminals, will resume normal operations tomorrow, Wednesday, Sept 15. Vessel operations will resume at 7 p.m. tonight. We thank you for your patience.
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Welcome Kerrick Henny to the #PortHouston Family! Kerrick is our Chief Government & Public Relations Officer who will provide strategic leadership and oversight of Port Houston’s efforts to engage and collaborate with key partners at the Federal, State and Local levels.
ALT Kerrick Henny, Chief Government & Public Relations Officer at Port Houston
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It’s #TexasPortsDay! Texas ports are critical to the economic growth of Texas. Today we celebrate the 19 different ports that make this a great state for facilitating the movement of U.S. products to the world marketplace. #TPD #Texas @texasports @Port_Houston
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An important milestone for the Houston Ship Channel was reached this week with the signing of the @USACEHQ's Chief's Report, a crucial step toward the further widening and deepening of the nationally significant waterway. Learn more here: bit.ly/2XXPAqm.
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Our 3 new STS cranes have arrived! M/V Zhen Hua 25 delivered 3 new Neopanamax #STScranes to our #Bayport Container Terminal. These cranes will be our largest to date standing 40 stories tall with boom fully raised and outreach 186.5 feet across. bit.ly/3gDdsHP
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The Coral Furcata called Port Houston over the weekend under some beautiful skies. The liquified gas tanker is now back in Gulf of Mexico headed toward the Panama Canal. It is expected to arrive there July 25. Built in 2011, the tanker is sailing under the flag of Singapore.
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It's #NationalTruckDriverAppreciationWeek! We want to thank the 3.5 million men and women who transport our goods safely, securely, and on time. It's especially significant during these tough times. 🙌
#NTDAW2020 #PortHOU #PHA #HoustonShipChannel
ALT Trucks Going Through the Bayport Terminal Entrance
ALT Oversize Trucks Lined Up at the Bayport Terminal
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#PortHOU was proud to #volunteer with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Galveston Bay Foundation and the Houston Zoo to support this year’s Crab Trap Removal Program! @GBayFoundation @TPWDnews @houstonzoo
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Congratulations to our Exec. Dir. Roger Guenther on receiving one of the Houston Business Journal’s “Most Admired CEO” Awards! #HBJCEO @HOUBizJournal #PortProud #PortHOU
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Our 3 new Ship-to-Shore cranes are in route to Port Houston from Shanghai! We can’t wait for these cranes to arrive at our Bayport Container Terminal. #PortHOU #STSCranes #Operations #NewToys #supplychain #ZPMC #NortonLilly
ALT 3 STS Cranes have departed from ZPMC Shanghai and head to Port Houston's Bayport Container Terminal
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#FlashbackFriday @Port_Houston was honored to host #UnitedStatesSecretaryofTransportation, Pete Buttigieg, and elected officials from across the nation earlier this month. This ceremony was held at Wharf 6 of the #Bayport Container Terminal to celebrate its completion.
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Construction continues to progress forward at #Bayport Container Terminal. Wharf 6 construction is four months ahead of schedule & expected to be completed in 7/2023. It's 1,000 feet in length & there will be 5 STS cranes on the wharf at completion. bit.ly/3THQcdj
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Port Houston is open for business, and we thank our employees and all of the essential workers that continue to make our operations possible during these unprecedented times.
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Welcome to Port Houston, @MSCCargo Luisa! Here, the vessel is transiting inbound to the Bayport Container Terminal. This is the first time that it has called the Port. The ship is on the Maersk TP18/MSC Lone Star Express/ZIM Shipping Gulf Central China Express service.
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Port Houston employees are supporting our home team in the @NBA Playoffs! Go @HoustonRockets! #RunAsOne
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#Opportunities are knocking at #PortHouston for small, minority- and woman-owned businesses. See why @AdrianGarciaHTX is so excited to share his thoughts on the new Port Houston #BusinessEquity initiative. #Enroll today at porthouston.com/business-equ….
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📣The Port of Houston is officially the number 1 port in waterborne tonnage in the nation. The Port of Houston is comprised of Port Houston’s eight public and almost 200 private terminals situated along the Houston Ship Channel. bit.ly/35ZBx7a
#We’reNumber1 #PortHOU
ALT The Port of Houston Aerial view
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Busy day of offloading at Port Houston’s Turning Basin terminal. #BusyBusiness #RoRo #Breakbulk #TurningBasin #PortHOU #Porche #VW
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Another gorgeous Monday at Barbours Cut Container Terminal! Can’t beat that view❗ #PortHOU #porthoustonlife #BarboursCut #Containerterminal
ALT View above Port Houston's Barbours Cut Container Terminal
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Congrats to @LyondellBasell’s Houston Refinery for celebrating its 100th anniversary! It was one of the first petroleum refineries constructed on the #HoustonShipChannel in the early 1900s.
We are honored to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Houston Refinery today with some of our tenured employees. Most of them have been with @LyondellBasell for over 30+ years. Thank you for all your hard work and dedication! #LYBProud
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Yesterday, the @Port_Houston Commercial Division got to spend time at the @SanJacCollege Maritime Technology and Training Center. Our team learned how to navigate vessels up and down the #HoustonShipChannel thanks to San Jacinto’s full-mission bridge simulators. #teambuilding
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A big #congratulations to @Port_Houston Executive Director Roger Guenther who was inducted yesterday into the International Maritime Hall of Fame by the Maritime Association of the Port of New York and New Jersey (#MAPONY/NJ). Read more at bit.ly/3lujNrD #HallofFame
ALT Port Houston Executive Director Roger Guenther being inducted into the International Maritime Hall of Fame
ALT Roger Guenther and other inductees honored into the International Maritime Hall of Fame
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Monday, July 8, 2024, 4:05 PM Weather Update:
All Port Houston terminals will remain closed tomorrow (Tuesday, July 9, 2024).
We will continue to assess and repair damage this afternoon and tomorrow and will send an update by 4 PM CT tomorrow for Wednesday operations.
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Barbours Cut Terminal has done it again! On February 2, 2022, the Barbours Cut team completed 5,615 gate transactions in one day breaking our previous record. Thank you to all involved; we couldn’t do this without an outstanding team! #NewRecord #PortHOU #CustomerService
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It’s crazy to see how far Barbours Cut Container Terminal has come. Here you can see the progress of how the terminal has grown since 1974 to become the leading container terminal on the US Gulf Coast. #ThrowbackThursday #BarboursCut #Growth #PortHOU #History
ALT Barbours Cut Container Terminal during present day
ALT Barbours Cut Container Terminal in 1987
ALT Barbours Cut Terminal in 1974
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Looking forward to 2022! @MSCCargo is updating its rotation for the Santana trans-Pacific service. @Port_Houston will be the first port call in the US for the service and offers a 31-day transit time between Vietnam, Central China and Houston. bit.ly/34wMBua.
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#ThrowbackThursday @Port_Houston’s Barbours Cut Container Terminal is celebrating 45 years! In 1977 Port Houston officially opened its first ever container terminal to service vessels. Although a radical idea in the past, this terminal has helped the port bring trade to Houston.
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Another day, another vessel‼️ Maersk Iowa called Barbours Cut Terminal today. This bright blue ship is 15 years old and flies under the USA flag🇺🇸. Her carrying capacity is 4,650 TEUS and has an overall length of 292 meters. #PortHOU #BarboursCut #Operations #Maritime @MaerskNAM
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Port Houston’s container exports continue to outpace historic 2022 volumes. Loaded exports specifically are up 17% ytd compared to last year, due in large part to the demand for resin exports. bit.ly/42Y7iIw
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Today we salute our Port Police officers for #LawEnforcementAppreciationDay! Thank you for all you do at Port Houston.
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At #PortHouston we’ve been moving record amounts of cargo, but it’s not without growing pains. We're making investments now to improve your experience. #BarboursCut is undergoing a $43 mill investment that will vastly enhance truck entry into the terminal. bit.ly/340tOrp
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Check out Port Houston and the #HoustonShipChannel on our popular Sam Houston Boat Tour. Story on @abc13houston this afternoon!
Did you know you can take a free 90 minute boat tour through the #HoustonShipChannel? I’ll have the story for you at 4 pm!
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The Houston Ship Channel: 100 Years 100 Photos
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Record-breaking moves for our Bayport Operations team! On Monday, CMA CGM La Traviata called Bayport Terminal with a record-breaking 6,099 moves beating the previous record set in June 2018. Special thanks to our hardworking staff for making this possible. #PortHOU #RecordBreaker
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#PortHOU hosted five maritime graduation dinners for local students! @JackYatesHigh @CTHSweb @GalenaParkISD @AustinMustangs @LaPorteISD
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UPDATE: Port Houston container terminals reopening for regular business March 20. Multi-purpose facilities open for business. Get details here: bit.ly/2xU4P8L.
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The CMA CGM Dalila discharged cargo at #PortHOU's Bayport #Container Terminal this week. #cargo #shipping #maritime #shipsinpics
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Barbours Cut Container Terminal has seen record-setting activity these past two days, with more than 4,000 transactions each day. We thank all the essential workers for their commendable contributions and hard work!
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#MSCLisbon departed #Bayport Container Terminal on Monday starting its journey to Freeport, Bahamas. This container vessel is part of the MSC Indus Express service connecting Houston to South Asia and the Middle East. #containership #indusexpress #PortHOU #Sunrise
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Port Houston posts record volume & best year yet in 2022! Port Houston container annual volume was up 14%, reaching just shy of 4M TEUs. Total tonnage was up 22% for the year, reaching 55,060,963 short tons, a new record. Read more: bit.ly/3XDCpGI #PortHOU #operations
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60 yrs ago today the first #container ship, Ideal X, arrived in #Houston ushering in the Intermodal Container Era.
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UPDATE: All Port Houston terminals open for business as usual. Get details here: bit.ly/2WunLFm.
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It’s National #InfrastructureWeek! Port Houston is a driver of economic activity for our region, supporting #infrastructure through capital investment #projects and #facility planning.
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It's Professional Engineers Day! A number of port employees are Professional #Engineers and support the #infrastructure and public works #projects at Port Houston. #LicensedPEDay
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Three new ship-to-shore #cranes arrived at #PortHOU's Bayport #Terminal after traveling for nearly 90 days at sea. The Presiding Officer for the Houston Pilots captured this timelapse video as the #vessel made its way up the #HoustonShipChannel. bit.ly/2MesCWh
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The MSC Paris arrived to the Bayport container terminal this weekend. The 14-year old vessel sails under the flag of Liberia and has a capacity of 8,204 TEUs.
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All Port Houston facilities will remain closed on Wednesday, August 30th due to the weather impact accross Houston.
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#GeneralCargo and #Breakbulk are on the rise at #PortHouston! There has been a surge in many commodities such as pipe, fencing material, aluminum, lumber, and autos. In August, general cargo was up 6% YTD while steel imports jumped 159% compared to the same month last year.
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The Siem Cicero made a 2-day stop in Houston at our Turning Basin terminal to offload vehicles. Unlike many other vessels that require crane operation to load and offload cargo, these RoRo vessels let out wheeled equipment and cars using the ramp attached to the ship.
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The port's three new super post-Panamax #container cranes have arrived at Bayport! #PortHOUcranes
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📢 Big news, folks! Something amazing is happening on Friday, August 4th at @Port_Houston's Bayport Container Terminal. Set your alarms for 9:00 am CST because we'll be going LIVE on our #YouTube channel to reveal this incredible surprise. bit.ly/3YjkxSY
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#PortHOU was proud to sponsor the new Turtle Soup mural off of JW Peavy St. in the Port of Houston! Great work @EastEndHou, Pilot FX and UP Art Studio!
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Ric Campo, Chairman of the Port Commission, delivered a keynote speech last week at the 2022 @EconAlliance Gulf Coast Industry Forum. He talked about the state of @Port_Houston, continued growth, and the long-term plans for the future. #maritime #supplychain #GCIF2022
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“We see the Port of #Houston as important #infrastructure. Getting the Chief’s Report is a crucial step.” - U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on the #HoustonShipChannel Expansion Project 11.
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“We are the no. 1 port in the U.S. for foreign waterborne tonnage, #petroleum and #steel.” - #PortHOU Chairman #StateofPort
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Night transit along the #HoustonShipChannel: A motor tanker transiting outbound from the #Port of Houston Turning Basin to Morgan’s Point.
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#Didyouknow - The port has a 10-yr. partnership w/ @GBayFoundation that supports regional environmental awareness and conservation efforts.
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This past week, the Bayport Container Terminal welcomed the CMA CGM Lisa Marie, the largest CMA CGM vessel to call at Port Houston. The Lisa Marie has a capacity of 10,926 TEUs, 5 STS cranes to service the ship and work concluded on Saturday morning with a total of 4,974 moves.
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Spotted at Bayport Terminal, last week the CMA-CGM Legacy, an #LNGPowered ship arrived to our docks. The CMA-CGM Legacy was built in 2023 and is 268 meters long and 43.3 meters wide, currently sailing in the Gulf of Mexico
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The #PortHOU Fire Department conducted their annual water survival training today at San Jacinto College's maritime campus! @sanjaccollege
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