The heavy lift vessel Zhen Hua 13 departed from Shanghai last month carrying three new, 120-meter-tall cranes. The big ship should reach its destination on the Houston Ship Channel by early October. The new cranes are part of a $700 million upgrade project at Barbours Cut, one of the ship channel’s two container terminals. The improvements will allow its wharves to accommodate the larger vessels soon to arrive through the newly expanded Panama Canal and boost container handling capacity by 60%. Both the expansions and the bigger ships will provide the capacity the port needs to handle the flood of exports that officials are expecting from the Houston area’s new polymer plants. Cheap, shale-gas-derived feedstocks have induced chemical makers to spend tens of billions of dollars on multiple new plants in the U.S. Around the Gulf Coast, companies will start up 10 ethylene cracker complexes—most complete with plants for derivatives
As a massive wave of chemical plants comes online, companies chart different courses to the market
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Cranes haul containers at a terminal on the busy Houston Ship Channel. (Credit: Port Houston)
Clearing the Gulf Coast logjam
Chemical & Engineering News ; 95 , 34 ; 18-20
2017-08-28
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petrochemicals , railroads , shipping , trucking , logistics , Gulf Coast , polyethylene
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