Tag: Houston Ship Channel

USCG announced that the Houston Ship Channel, which links the busiest U.S. petrochemical port to the Gulf of Mexico, has been taken up again after a fire-damaged ship blocking the waterway was moved to a berth.

On March 5, 2015, tanker Chembulk Houston and container ship Monte Alegre collided and grounded in the Houston Ship Channel, after the pilots agreed to let the Chembulk Houston overtake the Monte Alegre. Both ships were inbound in the channel. No injuries or pollution resulted from the accident, but both vessels sustained damage above their waterlines, totaling more than $1.7 million.

Coast Guard Vessel Traffic Service Houston closed a small section of the upper ship channel to deep dra

The Houston Ship Channel is celebrating its centennial as a deep water port in 2014

The NTSB has recently met to determine the probable cause of the March 22, 2014 collision in the Houston Ship Channel

This animated reconstruction shows the sequence of events leading up to the collision between the bulkship Summer Wind and the tankbarge Kirby

Results from the investigation are pending The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued its preliminary report on Houston Ship Channel collision.On Monday, March 9, 2015, at about 1231 central daylight time, the Liberian registered, 623-foot-long bulk carrier Conti Peridot and the 599-foot-long Danish flagged chemical tanker Carla Maersk collided near buoys 89 and 90 in the Houston Ship Channel, Upper Galveston Bay, southeast of Morgan's Point, Texas.After weighing anchor offshore at the entrance to the Houston Ship Channel and boarding a pilot, the Conti Peridot proceeded inbound at about 0930 up the channel to City Dock 24 to discharge its cargo of steel rolls. About the same time, the Carla Maersk departed Kinder Morgan Terminal in Galena Park, Texas, with a pilot on board and carrying 216,049 barrels (bbls) of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) outbound for Venezuela.The Conti Peridot got under way in good visibility. The Carla Maersk departed in light rain with a low cloud ceiling. As the vessels proceeded with their transits, radio transmissions between vessels reported developing fog in the Houston Ship Channel. At 1130, Houston Pilots suspended pilot boarding at the entrance channel due to fog. Piloted vessels already under way continued their transits.An ...

Port of Antwerp and Houston will further strengthen the trade relations between the two regions

USCG and Pasadena Fire and Rescue crews responded to an anhydrous ammonia leak on the Houston Ship Channel west of the Beltway 8 bridge Friday

Cmdr. Teresa Hatfield- the Coast Guard lead investigating officer for the collision, and Mr. Jon Furukawa,-with the National Transportation Safety Board, provide their closing remarks for a hearing at the Galveston County Criminal Justice Center