Bay City, Beaumont, Brownsville, Calhoun Port Authority, Cedar Bayou, Corpus Christi, Freeport, Galveston, Harlingen, Houston, Orange Palacios, Port Isabel, Port Mansfield, Texas City, Victoria, West Calhoun.
Texas port activities represent approximately 25% of the total State Gross Domestic Product.
A total of $270 billion in economic activity to the state of Texas is a result of the 564.7 million tons of cargo moving through Texas ports. The ports generate 112.100 jobs and a total of $6 billion of direct, induced and indirect state and local taxes are generated by maritime activities at the public and private port terminals in Texas. Seven Texas ports rank in the top 50 of all U.S. ports in terms of annual tonnage, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation, including Houston (2nd), Beaumont (6th), Corpus Christi (7th) and Texas City (11th).
The Port of Galveston ranked as the fourth-largest U.S. cruise market based on embarkation, with more than 863,000 passengers and crew in 2012. Texas Ports are connected to one another and to the rest of the U.S. inland waterway system by the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW). The GIWW allows ocean going shipping to connect with barge traffic. The Texas portion of the GIWW transports more than 73 million tons of cargo annually, moving in 52,773 barge movements. In comparison, the same cargo volume would take over 3 million container trucks or over 570,000 rail cars to transport.
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