Ports in Houston and New Orleans recorded slight drops in container actions in July, whereas shipments of crude oil boosted freight flows on the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas.
Port Houston July cargo actions impacted by Hurricane Beryl, international system outage
Port Houston’s container quantity dipped 5% 12 months over 12 months in July to 325,277 twenty-foot equal items in comparison with the identical month final 12 months.
Port officers mentioned a part of the drop throughout the month was associated to the impression of Hurricane Beryl and a worldwide programs outage that briefly disrupted operations.
Port Houston was closed July 8-9 after Beryl made landfall in Texas as a Class 1 hurricane. The port additionally briefly closed its Barbours Reduce and Bayport Container terminal July 19 as a consequence of a defective software program replace from CrowdStrike that disrupted web companies globally.
“Regionally we confronted some challenges this month, however our workforce excelled at rebounding shortly and sustaining the customer support Port Houston is understood for,” Roger Guenther, Port Houston’s govt director, mentioned in a information launch.
Imports into Port Houston throughout the month included plywood, wind energy gear and wooden/fiberboard, Guenther mentioned.
Metal imports decreased by 14% 12 months over 12 months in July to 367,915 tons. Exports of metal had been down 40% 12 months over 12 months to 18,955 tons.
Actions of empty import containers elevated 17% 12 months over 12 months in July to 12,727 twenty-foot equal items, as international ocean carriers reposition containers for import cargo, in response to a information launch. Empty export containers declined 14% 12 months over 12 months to 42,378 TEUs.
Loaded import containers had been down 5% 12 months over 12 months in July at 157,565 TEUs, whereas loaded exports had been down 4% 12 months over 12 months at 112,607.
Complete tonnage elevated throughout all services 3% 12 months up to now, totaling 31 million tons.
12 months-to-date container volumes on the port are up 10% in comparison with the identical interval in 2023, reaching 2.4 million TEUs from January by means of July.
Port Houston had 334 barge calls in July, a 16% year-over-year enhance. The port had 665 ship calls throughout the month, a 4% lower in comparison with July 2023.
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Port of New Orleans container shipments drop
The Port of New Orleans reported a 19% year-over-year drop in container volumes in July with 36,266 TEUs.
The port additionally recorded a 7% year-over-year decline in whole breakbulk tonnage at 67,837 brief tons throughout the month.
Kimberly Curth, port spokeswoman, mentioned ports all over the world are dealing with provide chain challenges that proceed to impression freight flows.
“Relating to containerized cargo, the diminished variety of calls is per numerous challenges that carriers are at present dealing with, equivalent to the continued congestion in a number of South American and Asian ports, the continued disruption within the Suez Canal and Hurricane Beryl, which affected operations within the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico in July,” Curth instructed BigRig in an electronic mail.
The Port of New Orleans noticed containerized imports of wooden merchandise, rubber articles, chemical substances and low in July, Curth mentioned.
Containerized cargo exports included plastic resins, paper merchandise and varied chemical substances. The highest breakbulk cargo throughout July was metal.
The port dealt with 10,846 Class I rail automobile switches in July, a 21percentyear-over-year enhance from July 2023. The port handles switching operations for six Class I railroads: BNSF, CN, CSX, CPKC, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific.
Port of Corpus Christi’s crude oil shipments up 13% in July
The Port of Corpus Christi recorded a 13% year-over-year enhance in crude oil shipments throughout July, dealing with 11.56 million tons.
Exports of crude oil totaled 10.8 million tons in July, a 13% year-over-year enhance. Imports of crude oil had been up 8% 12 months over 12 months throughout the month to 681,049 tons.
Petroleum shipments decreased 3.7% 12 months over 12 months in July to five.12 million tons. Exports of petroleum had been down 2.4% 12 months over 12 months at 4 million tons throughout the month. Imports of petroleum declined 1% in comparison with the identical year-ago interval.
Dry bulk cargo fell 21% 12 months over 12 months in July to 539,072 tons, whereas chemical bulk shipments rose 3.2% 12 months over 12 months to 272,579 tons.
Corpus Christi’s bulk grain shipments decreased 8.5% 12 months over 12 months to 266,665 tons.
The port had 402 barge calls in July, a 21% year-over-year lower from the identical month in 2023, whereas ship calls totaled 206, in comparison with 197 final 12 months.
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