Capital Improvement Projects

The Port Authority plans to undertake significant infrastructure improvements in the next few years to ensure that the Port of Houston can accommodate the advent of larger vessels and increased cargo resulting from the pending Panama Canal expansion in 2015, as well as the expected future demographic growth in the region.

Maintaining and improving efficiency at the public terminals through more modern facilities and equipment is essential to meeting one of our mandates – to promote and facilitate commerce to benefit not only our local partners, but also Texas and the nation.

In 2013, the Port Authority expects to seek Port Commission approval for $220 million in capital improvement projects. Approximately $142 million will be allocated to our container terminals for continuing development of Bayport and modernization at Barbours Cut. In addition, as local sponsor of the Houston Ship Channel, we will reserve about $9 million for maintenance dredging and related improvements. The remaining 2013 capital budget will be used primarily for projects at the general cargo and bulk terminals in the Turning Basin area and port security.

This Project Advertising Schedule is a list of all the current Port Authority capital improvement projects that are about to begin the procurement process.

The documents are available in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, you may obtain a free copy of the software.