The Port Behind the Supply Chain: How Port Houston Powers the Gulf Coast

But absolutely, customer service and the service to our industry is at my heart and i still talk to the existing managers over there today and just make sure everybody's being taken care of and moving forward but yeah at bayport specifically they've seen tremendous development we were fortunate to have been recipients of a few grants that have been able to support our yard expansions so those who knew bayport many years ago there was a cruise terminal at the very far east end of that facility And it was quickly determined that we could do better with that space by continuing to expand our container facility.

And so that is what we're actually developing right now.

That cruise terminal area is now being converted into container yard.

And that's pretty exciting.

We're actually putting in another exit gate in that space to help with the truck flow because all that space was never intended for trucks.

So, redesigning and rehabilitating some of that space to make sure that trucks can come through efficiently and we're not going to impact the community.

It's right up next to a residential community.

So, taking that into deep consideration as we expand to make sure that our impacts are reduced or mitigated through them.

And that's it.

And then the roadways.

I've been able to be very involved in the roadways in my recent positions and building another access roadway into the facility is going to be a game changer for Bayport.

And we're really excited to get that moving.

Again, got kickstarted a little bit with a little bit of grant money and look to continue that.

We're going to continue to build on and ask for more to expand.

that roadway and make it as efficient for the truckers as we can.

Also, obviously, it's right up next to communities.

So keeping that in mind as well and making sure that those communications are had.

So lots going on at Bayport.

And we can talk about 146 as well.

TxDOT's doing their expansions right there at Bayport, Port Road and 146.

It's a painful situation.

Everybody knows about that.

I

think everybody does too.

And we've been working with them to try to reduce the impacts.