Ports of Houston and Galveston to resume operations after Hurricane Beryl

Port Houston officials have announced that normal operations will resume today and will mean extended gate hours at its container terminals.

PHOTO: Aerial view of the Port of Houston, Texas. Getty Images

The Port of Galveston also confirmed via X that cargo operations will restart today.

Operations in multiple Gulf Coast ports, including Houston, Galveston, Freeport, Texas City, and Corpus Christi, were suspended on Sunday as Hurricane Beryl came closing in.

The hurricane made landfall as a Category 1 storm along the Texan coast on Monday morning, prompting the US Coast Guard to implement “port condition Zulu” in these locations.

Zulu comes into effect when gale-force wind gusts are forecast to hit the Gulf Coast region within 12 hours.

Yesterday, the Port of Corpus Christi authority said the Coast Guard had lifted port condition Zulu for the Corpus Christi Ship Channel, the La Quinta Channel and the Intracoastal Waterway stretching from Rockport to the US-Mexico border.

Maersk noted in an advisory that several Houston-based facilities experienced power outages, but anticipate that operations will resume once the Houston terminal gates reopen.

Some market experts previously expected the effects of Hurricane Beryl to linger in the region and potentially delay port reopenings until the weekend.

But Beryl has passed further into the US hinterland and been downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone. This has allow for quicker recovery efforts in ports and enabled operations to resume earlier than expected.

By Debarati Bhattacharjee

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