Friday, September 12, 2008

Port of Houston To Close In Preparation Of Ike

Dear shippers: You don't have to worry about hurricanes on the West Coast. I am just saying.

Story from Chicago Tribune

Just to clarify: Houston is the nation's second largest port when in comes to freight tonnage. The first is South Louisiana (New Orleans). This is because of grain shipments in middle American to the rest of the world. For Houston a lot of that tonnage is oil.

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