In the first two months of 2022, container volume at the port totalled 594,826 TEU, an increase of 31 per cent year-to-date, reports Houston's BIC Magazine .

"This is the biggest February Port Houston has ever seen in terms of containers. In response to this strong growth, we are accelerating projects at our container terminals, like opening additional gates at our Barbours Cut Container Terminal," Port Houston executive director Roger Guenther said.

"The arrival of three new neo-panamax ship-to-shore cranes at our Bayport Container Terminal in February will allow us to work larger ships than ever before, which is another way we are well poised for the future of container shipping," Mr Guenther said. "Those new cranes are expected to be fully operational by mid-April of this year."