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Houston Port — United States

Data refreshed 2026-10-11T20:35:08Z · quarterly refresh cycle

Houston, United States is a SIP-class port in United States, tracked by IMF PortWatch with 7,040 vessels at last extraction.

7,040 vessels tracked on the day of extraction

Sources: Kpler; UN Global Platform; IMF PortWatch (portwatch.imf.org).

Vessel composition by class

Shares below cover vessels with a reported class; the total also includes vessels without one.

Container: 994

Dry bulk: 718

General cargo: 646

RoRo: 94

Tanker: 4,586

Share of United States maritime trade

Maritime imports: 8.47%

Maritime exports: 13.90%

Top industries served

Petroleum, Chemical and Non-Metallic Mineral Products
Mining and Quarrying
Agriculture

Port record

Coordinates	29.7202N, -95.1398E
UN/LOCODE	US HOU
Port class	SIP
Continent	North America

Nearby high-activity ports in United States

New Orleans · 5,144 New York-New Jersey · 3,835 Los Angeles · 3,525

Data provenance

Source query: https://services9.arcgis.com/weJ1QsnbMYJlCHdG/arcgis/rest/services/PortWatch_ports/FeatureServer/1/query?where=1%3D1&outFields=%2A&f=json

Extracted 2026-10-11T20:35:08Z; field-subset of the published PortWatch ports layer (geometry omitted). Field-subset of the published PortWatch ports layer; point geometry dropped, lat/long kept as attributes.

Port data — Sources: Kpler; UN Global Platform; IMF PortWatch (portwatch.imf.org). Reused under the IMF Copyright & Usage terms. Fields subsetted (geometry omitted); see our data sources note. The IMF is not affiliated with and does not endorse ExportSonar.