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  2. Port of Houston - Wikipedia

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    Location; Country: United States: Location: Houston (Texas, USA): Coordinates: 1]: UN/LOCODE: USHOU [2]: Details; Operated by: Port of Houston Authority: Owned by: City of Houston: Type of harbour: Artificial / natural: Number of cargo container terminals: 2: Number of major general cargo terminals: 5: Statistics; Annual cargo tonnage: 212 million (2006) [3]: Annual container volume: 1.6 ...

  3. Port Houston - Wikipedia

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    Port Houston has an afterschool program and offers English as a second language classes for parents. [3] Port Houston was constructed in 1909, Furr was built in 1961, and Holland was built in 1979. [11] At one time Port Houston Elementary School had an international shipping magnet program. [2] In 2014 HISD proposed closing Port Houston Elementary.

  4. Barbours Cut Terminal - Wikipedia

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    Part of the larger Port of Houston complex, Barbours Cut is the largest of the terminals and the first port in Texas to handle standardized cargo containers. The terminal has six berths with 6,000 feet (1,800 m) of continuous wharfs. The loading area covers 230 acres (93 ha), with 255,000 square feet (23,700 m 2) of warehouse/storage space. The ...

  5. List of ports in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Top 25 water ports by tonnage. This is a list of ports of the United States, ranked by tonnage. [1] Ports in the United States handle a wide variety of goods that are critical to the global economy, including petroleum, grain, steel, automobiles, and containerized goods.

  6. Houston Ship Channel - Wikipedia

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    The Houston Ship Channel, in Houston, Texas, is part of the Port of Houston, one of the busiest seaports in the world. [1] The channel is the conduit for ocean-going vessels between Houston-area terminals and the Gulf of Mexico , and it serves an increasing volume of inland barge traffic.

  7. Bayport Terminal - Wikipedia

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    The Bayport Container Terminal, or simply the Bayport Terminal, is a major deep water port in the Greater Houston area in Texas (United States).This relatively new terminal, part of the Port of Houston, is designed to handle standardized cargo containers and offload the nearby Barbours Cut Terminal, which has no further room for expansion. [2]

  8. Category:Ports and harbors of Texas - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 24 December 2023, at 09:37 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  9. Port Terminal Railroad Association - Wikipedia

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    The Port Terminal Railroad Association is an American terminal railroad that operates 185 miles (298 km) of track at the Port of Houston in Houston, Texas. [1] It is an independent association comprising Port of Houston Authority , the Houston Belt & Terminal Railway , Union Pacific Railroad , BNSF Railway and Kansas City Southern Railway .