The Houston Ship Channel brings around $800 billion in business a year, or about 20...
The channel is vital to the industrial and commercial facilities along its banks that generate about $800 billion in business each year — about 20 percent of the state’s gross domestic product — and $38 billion a year in tax revenue, Diehl said.
Dredging the channel will allow it to accommodate larger and heavier ships, helping to reduce traffic and emissions along the channel and help make companies doing business along it more efficient. A dredger makes its way down the Houston Ship Channel as part of routine maintenance on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022 in Houston.Water is pushed outside the barge “Reference Point” as its docked in the Houston Ship Channel with the Greater Houston Port Bureau on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022 in Houston.A barge docked along the Houston Ship Channel with the Greater Houston Port Bureau on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022 in Houston.
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