Houston does not have a back log. The Panama canal is open for business.
And it used to be ours...
That’s great. The issue is the ship owners that scrapped Panamax ships pell mall and bought bigger ships that carry almost 3x as many containers.
Those won’t fit through the Panama Canal.
Plenty of port capacity here in FL as well.
Main issue is that these container ships are too large for the Panama Canal....otherwise it’s a loooooong way around through the Straits of Magellan.
Plrnty waiting for Houston and, to a lesser extent, Galveston.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-94.6/centery:29.4/zoom:9
Red = Tankers
Green = Cargo