Pack n send found this information on the Port of Houston website and have reprinted it for our customers to read. With the expansion of the Panama Canal, it is expected that the Port of Houston will see even more use.
The Port of Houston Delivers
First and Foremost from the Very Beginning The Port of Houston and the Houston Ship Channel have an impressive list of “first” accomplishments.
• The Houston Ship Channel was the first project to have a local match component. In 1909, Houston Mayor Horace Baldwin Rice and Congressman Tom Ball presented the “Houston Plan” to the U.S. House of Representatives Rivers and Harbors Committee. Congress approved it, and every port constructed in the U.S. since 1910 has followed this concept, which guarantees local financial support.
• The first direct shipment of cotton to Europe was 23,719 bales that left the Port of Houston in November 1919 on the M/V Merry Mount.
• By 1930, the Port of Houston had surpassed all its Texas rivals and ranked third in the U.S. for foreign exports.
• In 1937, the Port of Houston reached the status of second only to New York in tonnage and importance, according to Fortune Magazine. Its position slipped slightly during World War II, but by 1948, the Port of Houston was once again No. 2 in overall tonnage.
• Synthetic rubber was mass produced for the first time in 1943 by two new Houston area plants and shipped for use in World War II through the Port of Houston.
• After World War II, development of the petrochemical industry along the Houston Ship Channel accelerated, resulting in the Port of Houston becoming home to the nation’s largest petrochemical production complex and one of the largest in the world.
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