{"id":18370,"date":"2025-10-23T23:53:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/18370\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T23:53:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:53:33","slug":"houston-gains-as-new-orleans-corpus-christi-slip-in-august-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/18370\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston gains as New Orleans, Corpus Christi slip in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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>Port Houston boosted by grain and bagged goods volumes in August<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/porthouston.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Port Houston<\/a> handled 370,430 twenty-foot equivalent units in August, a 1% year-over-year increase.<\/p>\n<p>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>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>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>\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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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>Crude oil exports decrease 2% at the Port of Corpus Christi<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/portofcc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">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>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>Shipments of petroleum totaled 5.3 million tons during the month, a 2% year-over-year increase.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dry bulk cargo decreased 14% year-over-year to 714,001 tons in August.<\/p>\n<p>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>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>Port of New Orleans sees decrease in breakbulk, container volumes\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/portnola.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Port of New Orleans\u2019<\/a> container volume declined 8% year-over-year in August to 45,714 TEUs.<\/p>\n<p>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>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>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":18371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,14226,14227,10986,2992,14228],"class_list":["post-18370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-gulf-coast-port-volume","tag-gulf-coast-ports","tag-port-houston","tag-port-of-corpus-christi","tag-port-of-new-orleans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18370","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=18370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}