General Description
Location: The Port of Corpus Christi is located on the W coast of the Gulf of Mexico, approx 18nm from open sea, in Corpus Christi Bay.
General overview: The port encompasses four divisions, Harbor Island Oil Terminals, Ingleside, La Quinta and Inner Harbor. It specialises in handling bulk cargoes especially petroleum, chemicals, ores, containers and grains. A Free Trade Zone has been developed and recently shale oil cargoes loaded for other US ports.
Traffic figures: Approx 6,744 vessels and 80,300,000t of cargo handled annually. Load line zone: Summer. Max size: Draught 13.7m.