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Houston Ship Channel Partially Closed While Salvors Retrieve Missing Anchor

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June 19, 2024
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Houston Ship Channel Partially Closed While Salvors Retrieve Missing Anchor
Houston Ship Channel Partially Closed While Salvors Retrieve Missing Anchor

Houston Ship Channel Partially Closed While Salvors Retrieve Missing Anchor

reuters_logo1HOUSTON, March 10 (Reuters) – Marine site visitors within the Houston Ship Channel will stay partially halted till salvage ships retrieve an anchor that broke off a bulk service that collided with a tanker on Monday, the U.S. Coast Guard stated on Tuesday.

The bulk ship hauling metal and the tanker that was carrying 216,000 barrels of the gasoline additive methyl tertiary-butyl ether, or MTBE, remained in place on Tuesday because the U.S. Coast Guard and the Army Corps of Engineers labored with salvage corporations to maneuver them and retrieve the misplaced anchor, the Coast Guard stated.

Thirty-six ships, carrying all types of cargo, have been ready to get in whereas 28 waited to get out on Tuesday morning, stated J.J. Plunkett, port agent for the Houston Pilots.

On Tuesday, two tankers carrying Mexican crude have been nonetheless ready after being held up final week when fog pressured a four-day shutdown of the ship channel, based on ClipperData, which tracks crude actions.

Three different tankers carrying Saudi crude additionally have been held up by final week’s fog. By Tuesday one had been totally lightered and was leaving; a second was ready after having been lightered twice; and a 3rd was offloading its remaining 1 million barrels on the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port in New Orleans after 500,000 barrels have been lightered on Monday, ClipperData stated.

Also outdoors the channel have been two full Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs), one with Saudi crude, the opposite with Kuwaiti oil. There was additionally a Saudi vessel awaiting lightering of 500,000 barrels of Kuwaiti crude. The Saudi vessel discharged 1.5 million barrels on the LOOP on Friday, ClipperData stated.

Crude merchants stated the disruption may result in a drawdown of U.S. Gulf Coast crude shares and sluggish report builds. But such blips usually proper themselves when the channel reopens and backlogs in site visitors clear up.

An unknown quantity of MTBE was spilled within the high U.S. petrochemical port when the double-hulled tanker Carla Maersk collided with the majority vessel.

Traffic out and in of Galveston, Texas City and Bayport on the south finish of the ship channel moved as regular on Tuesday. The space the place the collision occurred remained closed close to Morgan’s Point, simply south of Baytown. (Reporting By Kristen Hays in Houston and Catherine Ngai in New York; Editing by Marguerita Choy and David Gregorio)

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