The Natural Gas Boom Could Snarl Traffic at One of America's Busiest Ports
- Houston Ship Channel already prone to backups in bad weather
- U.S. LNG exports are at record as cargoes sail from Gulf Coast
The Houston Ship Channel in Houston, Texas, on Jan. 30, 2014.
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A boom in natural gas exports from the U.S. Gulf Coast is raising the prospect of traffic jams at one of America’s busiest ports.
Weather delays from fog and storms are nothing new at the Houston Ship Channel, which links the prolific oil and gas fields of Texas and Louisiana to the rest of the world. But as more cargoes of liquefied natural gas and petrochemicals head across the globe from newly built plants, the tanker bottlenecks are poised to get worse, according to Poten & Partners.