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Port of Brownsville

Deepwater bulk and break bulk seaport at the southern tip of Texas, the only deepwater port on the U.S.-Mexico border, linked to the Gulf by a 17-mile ship channel.

Brownsville, TX · Organization

About

The Port of Brownsville opened in 1936 and is governed by the Brownsville Navigation District. The ship channel has a design depth of 42 feet, with congressional authorization to deepen it to 52 feet under the Brazos Island Harbor Channel Improvement Project.

Cargo Dock 16, a heavy-load capacity dock, opened in 2015 and Liquid Cargo Dock 6 was completed in 2019. The port is grantee for Foreign Trade Zone No. 62, ranked No. 3 in the nation for export value, and sits at the western terminus of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway on the M-10 and M-69 Marine Highway corridors.

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