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In the 2015 traffic of the container in the port of Houston two million teu for the first time have exceeded quota
Previewed ulterior consisting an increase in the next few years
December 11, 2015
The port of Houston will for the first time close 2015 with a new record of the container having recorded this year a volume advanced total to the million threshold two teu. The precedence record was established in 2014 with 1.951.088 teu.
The Harbour Authority of the American port of call has emphasized that in the next few years a consisting increase of the containerized trade in the port of Houston is previewed moreover and in order to tackle to such increase of the activity investments for about 700 million dollars by Port Authority in order modernizing are on and upgrading the Barbours Cut Container Terminal, so as to increase of the efficiency, to allow it to receive ships of greater dimension and to double the traffic ability. These investments have allowed among other things this year to install in the terminal four new cranes of super dock post-Panamax. Moreover the Authority has remembered that participations for the potenziamento of the activity of the other container are on also terminal of the port American, the Bayport Container Terminal.
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