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Port of Houston Begins Work to Accommodate Bigger Box Ships
Wednesday August 6, 2014
The Port of Houston has started work on an $85 million project to deepen parts of the Houston Ship Channel, local media reports.
The project will see Barbours Cut container terminal and the Bayport terminal dredged to a depth of 45 feet, matching that of the main Ship Channel, allowing for larger container and petrochemical ships to call at the port.
The move was said to be particularly important due to the increase in ship size once the widening of the Panama Canal is completed.
According to the report, The Port of Houston expects the increased economic impact from the larger ships to be as much as $30 million dollars annually.
