Chemical Ships Often Delayed For Weeks in Crowded Texas Ports / تین نیوز

-TIN news: The ideal time in port for chemical tankers in Houston and Freeport is less than three weeks. Currently, however, those ships routinely spend seven weeks in port as traffic increases along Texas’ Gulf Coast, which adds costs for shippers and cargo handlers alike. “The last few years it has gotten worse and worse and worse,” George Pontikos of chemical shipping company Odfjell told the Houston Chronicle. Over the past 20 years, shipping commerce as a whole — and chemical tankers in particular — sharply increased in the narrow channel that winds through the country’s largest petrochemi