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quarter). Leading commodities were crude, re? ned products, and LNG.

Britton’s “behind the numbers” expla- nation is rooted in the post-2015 U.S. crude export era: the export ban was lift- ed, shale production expanded, and pipe- lines converged on Corpus Christi. That surge matured into the 2019–2020 pe- riod when major crude pipelines arrived and positioned the gateway for scale.

In the last three years, he characteriz- es growth as relatively ? at—up slightly, up slightly, then down slightly—driven mostly by crude export variability rath- er than a change in the Port’s underly- ing capability.

Meanwhile, the LNG runway is clearer. The Port’s LNG story is closely linked to existing and expanding liq- uefaction capacity, and Port-reported data show LNG tonnage rising mean- ingfully year over year in 2025. “The Biggest Thing We’ve

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