Dredging: Houston

Houston Completes Bayport Channel Dredging

Maintenance dredging was completed recently on Port Houston’s Bayport channel. The channel is accepted and will be maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at a depth of 48.5 feet mean lower low water (MLLW). This completed work fully opens the Bayport Container Terminal to receive 45-foot draft vessels.

Bayport joins Barbours Cut in its ability to take full advantage of the Houston Ship Channel depth.

Barbours Cut, which this year celebrates its 40th anniversary, recently established a Houston record for container lifts from one vessel: 4,198 moves working with the 5,000 TEU COSCO Boston. The previous record, 4,153 container lifts was set in March at the Bayport Container Terminal by Maersk Atlanta.

Port Houston continues to perform well, handling more than 16 million tons of cargo for the year, an increase of 12 percent over last year, thanks in great part to a 15 percent jump in container traffic, which through June totaled 1,023,159 TEUs.