01APR2019 - NEWS - Tanker bottleneck eases in the Houston ship channel with the arrival of four tanker vessels

On last Thursday, Four tankers were preparing to offload or pick up cargoes in the busiest U.S. oil port, the first signs of an easing of the bottleneck that cut 1 million barrels per day of shipments. The Houston Ship Channel reopened this week with operating restrictions following a fire at Mitsui & Co Inc’s Intercontinental Terminals Co (ITC) in Deer Park, Texas. That blaze sent fuel and chemicals into the waterway, which connects Houston to the Gulf of Mexico and is home to nine refineries. On Thursday, 55 inbound and 19 outbound vessels were waiting to move through areas tainted by the fuels.

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