In 2020, almost 29,000 vessels passed through the Port of Houston. Nearly 21,000 of these ships were barges transporting mainly liquid bulk. Dry bulk barges and dry bulk carriers amounted to 1,917 and 512 port calls that year, respectively.
Ship traffic handled at the Port of Houston in 2020, by ship type
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