Houston Ship Channel Operations Closed Due to Fog

Monday, March 15, 2021

Operations at the Houston ship channel were suspended early on Monday morning due to dense fog in the region, a Galveston Texas Pilots dispatcher said.

The ship channel is a 53-mile (85 km) waterway connecting the busiest U.S. petrochemical port with the Gulf of Mexico.


(Reporting by Anjishnu Mondal and Arpan Varghese; Editing by Nick Zieminski)

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