by Heiko Osterchrist<\/p>\n
Port of Corpus Christi,\u00a0Corpus Christi\u00a0\u2013 The Port of Corpus Christi handled a record 54.5 million tons in Q1 2026, surpassing its previous high of 54.0 million tons (Q4 2024) and rising 6.1% (3.2 million tons) year-over-year.<\/p>\n
Growth was led by LNG volumes, up 1.5 million tons (33%), driven by commissioning at\u00a0Cheniere Energy\u2019s Corpus Christi Stage 3 project, including Train 5 completion. Agricultural exports and refined products\/bulk liquids each increased by 1.4 million tons, while dry bulk rose nearly 0.5 million tons (21%). These gains were partially offset by a 1.5 million ton (5%) decline in crude oil shipments, which has since rebounded following market shifts tied to the conflict in\u00a0Iran.<\/p>\n
March 2026 set a new monthly record at 19.9 million tons, up 10.4% year-over-year and above February volumes. Gains included crude (+2.1%), refined products (+11.4%), and LNG (+36.8%), with crude exports exceeding 2.4 million barrels per day.<\/p>\n
CEO\u00a0Kent Britton\u00a0attributed the strong performance to customer responsiveness and more than $1 billion in port infrastructure investments, reinforcing the region\u2019s role in the global energy supply chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Heiko Osterchrist Port of Corpus Christi,\u00a0Corpus Christi\u00a0\u2013 The Port of Corpus Christi handled a record 54.5 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-253805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253805","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=253805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}