The Port of Corpus Christi (port code: USCOC / USCRP) is the largest port in the United States, based on total revenue tonnage, and the nation’s largest energy export gateway. It is located on the west coast of the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 18 nautical miles from open sea, in Corpus Christi Bay.
The port encompasses four divisions, Harbor Island Oil Terminals, Ingleside, La Quinta and Inner Harbor. There are facilities for handling break bulk, container, dry bulk and liquid. A free trade zone has been developed.
The port specialises in handling bulk cargoes especially petroleum, chemicals, ores, containers and grains. It handles more than 80 million tons of cargo and 6,700 vessels annually. The types of vessels regularly calling at this port are tankers, accounting for about 32.5%; passenger vessels, taking up around 20%; and cargo vessels, taking a proportion of 5%. The maximum length of the vessels recorded to having entered this port is 278 meters. The maximum draught is 13.7 meters. The maximum deadweight is 165,209t.
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