The Port of Corpus Christi announced Oct. 20 its nine-month tonnage period to begin the year is a record for the Port, with customers moving 162.7 million tons of commodities.<\/p>\n
The volume has surpassed the previous record of 153.3 million tons set during the same period in 2025 by 6.1%, according to a news release from the Port.<\/p>\n
In the third quarter alone, Port of Corpus Christi customers moved 52.4 million tons of commodities through the Corpus Christi Ship Channel according to the news release \u2014 a 3% increase from the same period in 2025.<\/p>\n
The Port said the quarterly growth was led by liquefied natural gas (LNG), which increased 46.2% to 6.6 million tons compared with the same period according to the news release. Shipments of LNG rose 23.7% to 525,761 tons, according to the Port.<\/p>\n
Other volume increases included:<\/p>\n
Dry bulk commodities: 2.1 million tons, up 20.9%.<\/p>\n
Other bulk liquids: 4.1 million tons, up 7.8%.<\/p>\n
Refined products: 8.5 million tons, up 3.7%.<\/p>\n
The quarterly increases were partially offset by declines in other cargo sectors according to the Port, areas such as breakbulk cargo, agricultural commodities and crude oil shipments.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Port of Corpus Christi announced Oct. 20 its nine-month tonnage period to begin the year is a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,223,16197,37565],"class_list":["post-479543","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-news","tag-rockport_pilot","tag-san_patricio_county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479543","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=479543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}