{"id":13240,"date":"2025-10-21T03:06:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/13240\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T03:06:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:06:39","slug":"houston-gains-as-new-orleans-corpus-christi-slip-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/13240\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston gains as New Orleans, Corpus Christi slip in August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Port Houston saw modest gain in container movements in August, while oil and breakbulk cargo decreased at ports in New Orleans and Corpus Christi, Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\"><a href=\"https:\/\/porthouston.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Port Houston;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Port Houston<\/a> handled 370,430 twenty-foot equivalent units in August, a 1% year-over-year increase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Shipment of grain through Port Houston was up 173% year-over-year during the month, reaching 212,168 short tons. Imported bagged goods were up 901% compared to the same month last year, totaling 68,358 tons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Steel imports decreased by 5% year-over-year to 324,258 tons. Exports of steel were down 60% year over year to 28,622 tons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Year-to-date container volumes at the port are up 5% compared to the same period in 2024, reaching 2.9 million TEUs from January through August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">\u201cOur volumes are holding strong this year, and we\u2019re optimistic about the months ahead,\u201d Charlie Jenkins, CEO at Port Houston, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/porthouston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Port-Houston-Maintains-Steady-Growth-in-the-Third-Quarter.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:news release;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Join the leaders shaping freight\u2019s future at<br \/>F3: Future of Freight Festival,\u00a0Oct 21-22.<br \/>Network with the industry\u2019s best and discover what\u2019s next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/live.freightwaves.com\/f3-future-of-freight-festival-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Register now!;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Register now!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\"><a href=\"https:\/\/portofcc.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Port of Corpus Christi;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Port of Corpus Christi<\/a> saw a 4% year-over-year decrease in total cargo to 17.4 million tons in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The port saw 3.5% year-over-year decline in total crude oil shipments, including a 2% drop in exports of crude oil in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Shipments of petroleum totaled 5.3 million tons during the month, a 2% year-over-year increase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Dry bulk cargo decreased 14% year-over-year to 714,001 tons in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Chemical shipments fell 8% year-over-year to 279,595 tons, while bulk grain shipments fell 7% year-over-year to 302,917 tons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The Port of Corpus Christi had 223 ship calls in August, a 4% year-over-year increase from 2024. The port recorded 347 barge calls during the month, a 17% year-over-year decline compared to the same year-ago period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\"><a href=\"https:\/\/portnola.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Port of New Orleans\u2019;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Port of New Orleans\u2019<\/a> container volume declined 8% year-over-year in August to 45,714 TEUs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Beakbulk cargo movements recorded a 7% year-over-year decrease in August to 76,549 short tons, led by shipments of steel and natural rubber.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Other top commodities shipped through the Port of New Orleans in August include plastic resins, various chemicals, synthetic rubber, coffee, machinery and equipment and wood products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The port handled 10,091 Class I railcar switches in August. The port handles switching operations for the six Class I railroads that operate in New Orleans: BNSF Railway, CN, CSX, CPKC, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Port Houston saw modest gain in container movements in August, while oil and breakbulk cargo decreased at ports&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[10987,155,157,156,10985,10986,2992],"class_list":{"0":"post-13240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-breakbulk-cargo","9":"tag-corpus-christi","10":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","11":"tag-corpus-christi-news","12":"tag-new-orleans","13":"tag-port-houston","14":"tag-port-of-corpus-christi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}