Barbours Cut Specifications

Barbours Cut Channel

• The channel is 1.3 nautical miles in length
• The channel is 300' wide and has a federally authorized depth of 40"
• Port of Houston Authority berths are 150' wide and dredged to match the channel
• The turning basin is 1600' in diameter which allows vessel length of up to 1333'

PHA Wharf/Dockside

• The design draft is 40' at the lash dock and docks C1 through C6
• The lash dock: up to a 900' vessel length
• Dock C1 through C6: 1000'
• Dock C7: 1000', design draft 32'

Warehouse and Break Bulk Terminal

• 1 x 1000,000 square foot warehouse with 58 acres of paved cargo handling area
• 50 slot USDA ramp

Acreage

• Barbours Cut has 235 acres of developed land
• C1 25 acres
• C2 23 acres
• C3 19 acres
• C4 27 acres
• C5 36 acres
• Building and gates 33 acres
• Dock 14 acres
• Warehouse/Break Bulk Terminal 58 acres

Grounded and Wheeled Storage

• 27,680 TEUs of grounded storage
• 2700 wheeled slots including 392 reefer slots (440V)

Steamship Lines Serviced

• ACL    Atlantic Container Line
• ALI      Alianca
• CHS   Cosco North America
• CNI     Compania Chilena
• CPL    Compania lIBRA lINES
• HLC    Hapag Lloyd
• HSC    Hanjin
• HSD    Hamburg Sud
• NYK     NYK Line
• OOC    OOCL
• SSA     Shipping Co. of Saudi Arabia

Marine Fire Department

• 24/7 Fire Department response
• Fire Department equipped with 1 pumper truck and 1 hazardous response truck

Inbound and outbound gates consist of 4 stages that are equipped with LA King Control system.

• Stage 1:  15 lanes at the entry gate with 1 lane that will accommodate oversized loads
• Stage 2:  15 inbound traffic lanes, 13 equipped with scales (non-DOT- certified), manned survey, and 1 lane that will accommodate oversized loads
• There is also a warehouse lane for inbound containers with a scale
• Stage 3:  8 OCR portal lanes outfitted by APS
• Stage 4:  12 lanes for final transaction processing and 1 lane that will accommodate oversized loads 
• 4 RPMs in advance of outbound with 2 secondary RPMs
• L A King gate control system
• Manual survey at the inbound gates
• Automated survey at the outbound gates by ABS

Current Terminal Handling Equipment

9 x 50’ gauge ship-to-shore container handling gantry cranes:

• 2 – Impsa Post Panamax
• 2 –Morris  Post-Panamax
• 5 - Paceco

36 Rubber Tired Gantry Cranes:

• 22  Kone 
• 8 Bardella
• 6 Noel

Yard Equipment:

• 31 capacity yard hustlers
• 80 bomb-cart chassis
• 2 x 45 ton toploader container handlers
• 3 x  7 ton empty stackers, 5 high

A schematic of the facility can be found here in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)*.

View wharf crane schematics:
Numbers 1-2, 5-8
Numbers 3-4, 9-10

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.