{"id":472664,"date":"2026-10-21T21:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T21:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/472664\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T21:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T21:58:13","slug":"port-of-corpus-christi-sets-nine-month-cargo-record-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/472664\/","title":{"rendered":"Port of Corpus Christi sets nine-month cargo record in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Port<\/p>\n

The Port of Corpus Christi recorded its highest cargo throughput for the first nine months of 2026, handling 162.7 million tons of commodities through the Corpus Christi Ship Channel.<\/p>\n

The total represents a 6.1% increase from the previous record of 153.3 million tons, set during the same period in 2025.<\/p>\n

During the third quarter, port customers handled 52.4 million tons, up 3% from 50.9 million tons a year earlier. However, volumes remained below the third-quarter record of 53 million tons recorded in 2024.<\/p>\n

LNG and dry bulk drive growth<\/p>\n

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) recorded the strongest growth among the major cargo categories during the third quarter.<\/p>\n

LNG volumes increased by 46.2% to 6.6 million tons, while natural gas liquids (NGL) rose by 23.7% to 525,761 tons.<\/p>\n

Dry bulk throughput also increased, climbing 20.9% to 2.1 million tons compared with the third quarter of 2025.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, refined petroleum products grew by 3.7% to 8.5 million tons, and other bulk liquids increased by 7.8% to 4.1 million tons.<\/p>\n

Despite these gains, several cargo categories recorded lower volumes.<\/p>\n

Crude oil shipments declined by 2.8% to 30.4 million tons, although they remained the largest cargo category handled during the quarter.<\/p>\n

Breakbulk cargo fell sharply by 94.7% to 17,041 tons. Agricultural commodities also decreased by 69% to 192,533 tons.<\/p>\n

Overall, the port\u2019s nine-month record reflects higher cargo volumes during 2026, supported by strong growth in LNG and several bulk commodity categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Port of Corpus Christi recorded its highest cargo throughput for the first nine months of 2026, handling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-472664","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\/472664","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=472664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}