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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 ...
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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.
Port Houston is a neighborhood located on the East Side of Houston, Texas, United States. Port Houston is an industrial, mostly Hispanic community [1] located near the Houston Ship Channel and the Port of Houston. In a 2007 article John Nova Lomax of the Houston Press described Port Houston as "a blue-collar Mexican neighborhood of wrought-iron ...
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]
The City of Houston and the Houston Port Authority have operated seven fireboats in Houston. [1] The Port authority currently manages three fireboats in Houston. [2] The Port Houston, completed in 1926, was the first fireboat in Houston. [1] She was retired, in 1950, when she was replaced by the Captain Crotty.
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 .
The Port Houston, commissioned in 1926, was the first fireboat to serve the Houston area. [1] She was replaced by the Captain Crotty in 1950. According to the Transactions of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, the Port Houston was the world's first diesel-electric fireboat. [2]