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Port Report

Port of Corpus Christ :

THE Energy Port of the Americas

The Port of Corpus Christ provides access to the U.S. inland waterway system from its locat on on the western Gulf of Mexico. It han- dles liquid bulk, RoRo, break-bulk, dry bulk and containerized cargo through mult ple terminals. By the numbers, the port looks something like this: • $50 Billion: Amount of invest- ment projects, foreign and do- mest c, in past 4 years or under- way.

• 11,016: Total vessel calls in 2015 • $350: Cost in millions to dredge the channel into Port of Corpus

Christ from 47’ to 52’.

• $140: Investment in millions that Port Corpus Christ is spending to start dredging its channel to 52’.

• 85.7: Total tonnage (domes- t c and foreign), in millions, in 2015.

• 80.2: Percentage of total ton- nage classi? ed as Petroleum and Petroleum Products.

• 47: The depth, in feet, of the current channel into Port of

Corpus Christ .

• 52: Authorized channel depth to be achieved when proj- ect (approved in 2007 under

WRDA) ? nally makes it into the president’s budget.

Top 10 Trading Partners, by Dollar Value 1. Mexico 2. Venezuela 3. China 4. Italy 5. Brazil 6. Saudi Arabia 7. The Netherlands 8. Ecuador 9. United Kingdom 10. Colombia

Sources: Port of Corpus Christ Port Performance

Freight Stat st cs Program – Annual Report to Con- gress 2016, U.S. Department of Transportat on,

Bureau of Transportat on Stat st cs.

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