HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today its partnership with Port Houston to help establish a dedicated chassis pool system for “terminal use only” at Port ...

More than 2 million containers have moved across Port of Houston Authority docks this year, setting a traffic record for the huge shipping units that arrive daily laden with everything from toys and ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Port Commission of the Port of Houston Authority met on Thursday, October 27, for its regular monthly meeting. In his report to the Commission, Executive Director Roger ...

Port Houston saw a surge in container exports in June, while crude oil exports rose at the Port of Corpus Christi. Port Houston handled 339,157 twenty-foot equivalent units in June, a 7% ...

Container flow in August slumped in Houston, while global demand for crude oil continued to fuel exports through Corpus Christi, Texas. The Port of New Orleans reported steel and rubber as its top ...

An experiment on a ship that steamed from the East Coast bound for Houston 50 years ago changed the world. The Ideal X left the Port of Newark April 26, 1956, carrying cargo in 58 shipping containers.

This aerial photo shows the facility Wright Containers has in Houston, which is located in the southeast part of town, in a mixed residential and industrial commercial neighborhood. The Office of ...

Port Houston used cranes to lift a record 4,198 containers on or off the COSCO Boston ship at Barbours Cut, officials recently announced. Executive Director Roger Guenther said the number of ...

Shipping container homes—modern, utilitarian, industrial chic—may be all over the design blogs and shelter magazines, but in Houston? Not so much. But if one fledgling developer has his way, there ...

One of those 40-foot steel boxes integral to international trade is finding new life as a net-zero energy, zero-waste office space in Midtown. Eight solar panels provide electricity. An atmospheric ...

A 320-square-foot container just north of downtown Houston is not where you would expect to find a farm, but that's exactly where is located at. Acre in a Box consists of two shipping containers ...