About Port of Houston Authority
To Move the World and Drive Regional Prosperity
- Industry
- Maritime Transportation
- Company size
- 501-1,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Houston, Texas
- Founded
- 1914
- Company type
- Government Agency
- Company profile name
- Port Houston
Our Story
For more than 100 years, Port Houston has owned and operated the public wharves and terminals along the Houston Ship Channel, including the area’s largest breakbulk facility and two of the most efficient container terminals in the country. Port Houston is the advocate and a strategic leader for the Channel. The Houston Ship Channel complex and its more than 200 private and eight public terminals, collectively known as the Port of Houston, is the nation’s largest port for waterborne tonnage and an essential economic engine for the Houston region, the state of Texas and the U.S. The Port of Houston supports the creation of nearly 1.5 million jobs in Texas and 3.4 million jobs nationwide, and economic activity totaling $439 billion in Texas and $906 billion in economic impact across the nation.
Specialties
- container cargo
- break-bulk cargo
- Ro-Ro cargo
- bulk commodities
- heavy lift cargo
- project cargo
- all-water shipping
- and Foreign Trade Zone
Company locations
2960 Riverby Rd, Houston, Texas 77020, US
1819 E Barbours Cut Blvd, La Porte, Texas 77571, US
12703 Port Rd, Seabrook, Texas 77586, US
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- 57,174
- People linked to this company
- 768
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