Steel tonnage handled by Port of Houston up 58 percent year-over-year in January

Friday, 25 February 2011 02:43:53 (GMT+3)   |  
       

Steel shipments handled by the Port of Houston Authority totaled 243,000 net tons last month, compared to 154,000 net tons of steel handled in January 2010-a 58 percent increase. Container revenue rose 8 percent last month as well.

Port of Houston Authority Alec G. Dreyer commented, "While ship arrivals at the container facilities and in the Turning Basin were essentially flat between January of this year and last year, barge traffic was up a stout 30 percent for the first month of the year."

"TEU volumes were up 5 percent in January while unit counts were up 4 percent," concluded Dreyer.


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