Deugro’s new logistics terminal in Baytown, Texas, offers climate-controlled warehousing and customised packing and crating services to shippers in the heavy-lift and specialised sectors.
Project freight forwarder deugro announced it has opened a 96,775-square-foot operations and logistics terminal in Baytown, Texas, about 26 miles east of Houston.
Facilities offered
The facility offers access to the nearby Houston Ship Channel, as well as commercial ports in Houston and Galveston, according to Jeff Smith, deugro USA’s global head of supply chain logistics.
“Adjacent to Port Houston, deugro is starting a new chapter of growth and prosperity ,providing seamless logistics solutions, climate-controlled warehousing, and customised packing and crating in the operational environment of a true project freight forwarder,” Smith said in a news release.
Features
The terminal offers a range of long-term and short-term storage solutions , from palletized storage to bulk storage , designed to accommodate various needs, including out-of-the box solutions for storing industrial and oilfield services equipment, the company said.
The facility is equipped with two all-weather container loading docks; an oversized door for cargo access; 14 grade level overhead doors; and a 7-acre outdoor secure hardstand area featuring six dock high truck wells.
Container flows slipped
Port Houston’s monthly container flows slipped in September to 325,588 twenty-foot equivalent units, a year-over-year (y/y) decrease of 8% compared to the same period last year.
Container volumes from January through September at Port Houston totaled 2.8 million TEUs, a 4% y/y decrease compared to the same period in 2022.
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