BNSF Railway’s new service at Barbours Cut Container Terminal expands capacity to meet growing demand. Port Houston averages around 12,000 trucks per day at our container terminals. With this added on-dock terminal rail service, Port Houston can help customers get their containers more efficiently. BNSF’s service will operate Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays heading to the greater Dallas/Fort Worth and Denver markets.

Union Pacific has also expanded their services to deliver containers to five growing inland markets. This service will allow containers to be loaded onto railcars from cargo ships docked at Barbours Cut Container Terminal and transported directly to Denver, Salt Lake City, Oakland, Los Angeles, El Paso, and Dallas/Fort Worth. This addition will help containers head to their destination more efficiently and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Port Houston is the largest Gulf Coast container port, handling 73% of U.S. Gulf Coast container traffic and is an essential economic engine for the Houston region, the state of Texas and the U.S.

“These added rail services are an exciting step forward in the movement of cargo at Port Houston. Port Houston is a top five container port and growing fast, and intermodal solutions like this help ensure continued efficient movement of goods to locations throughout the U.S.,” said Roger Guenther, Executive Director at Port Houston .

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Public officials, Port Houston and members of the Port Terminal Railroad Association joined together at a groundbreaking ceremony for the Broadway Double Track project near Manchester Street in the Port of Houston Oct. 1.

Three Class I railroads – Union Pacific, BNSF Railway and Kansas City Southern Railroad – worked in collaboration with the port and provided half of the project funding. Houston-Galveston Area Council provided the remaining federal funding.

Port Houston owns the track, which is operated by PTRA. The project is estimated to generate up to $63 million in benefits over several years.

“This project is a model of successful private and public partnership,” Executive Director Roger Guenther said during the event.

The rail system operated by PTRA includes a rail bridge that overpasses Broadway Street in Houston, which provides rail switching services to shippers.

“This project is good for the greater Port of Houston; the additional capacity provided by this main second rail track will further enable the flow of commerce in our region,” added Guenther.

Having two main tracks on this segment of the railway will reduce delays to trains awaiting clearance to enter into the single track, further improving the flow of cargoes to and from industrial port facilities.

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