Major industrial and energy projects on the Gulf Coast are leading to a boom in cargo activity at Port NOLA and the Port of Houston, two of the largest U.S. ports for breakbulk and project cargo, even as conflict in the Middle East introduces global shipping disruptions and tariff-induced, reports the S&P’s Journal of Commerce.
For Port NOLA, the latest development expected to drive project cargo activity is the $3.4 billion expansion of Shintech’s chemical manufacturing complex. Shintech is the world’s largest manufacturer of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Read more from the Journal of Commerce.
