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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Port Houston hosted more than 30 industry representatives for a Perishables Roundtable at the port’s Executive Building Nov. 15.

Participants included importers, exporters, buyers, retailers, brokers, cold storage warehouses, ocean carriers, truckers and the public agencies involved in the trade.

Port Houston Senior Director of Trade Development, John Moseley, provided welcome remarks to the attendees. The professionals discussed a new electronic-cold pasteurization process with a presentation provided by Lindsay Caswell, marketing manager at ScanTech Sciences, Inc.

The Puerta Verde Market development, a new perishables market concept in Houston for consumer-direct distribution and building upon the regional produce network, was another topic of interest.

Alejandro Gammon, Officer in Charge with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, provided an update on pest identification reports and answered questions regarding perishables import issues. Some of the top refrigerated cargo commodities Port Houston handles include bananas, pineapples and a variety of citrus products.

The goal of the event is to improve communication between all stakeholders of Port Houston's perishable community.

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