Port Houston handled 288,127 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in May, a 30% increase compared to the same month in 2020.
“Cargo means jobs,” Ric Campo, chairman of the Port of Houston Authority, said at the port commission meeting Tuesday.
“People need their stuff. Somebody’s revenue is somebody else’s expense. All those expenses go to jobs,” Campo said. “Without revenue, you have no jobs.”
Top imports at the largest port on the Gulf Coast in May included steel, auto supplies, bagged goods,...
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