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The Local and Regional Economic Impacts of the Port of Houston, 2006: Prepared for the Port of Houston Authority, February, 2007

Published:

2007

Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Martin Associates

Type:

Hard copy + Online document

1 volume

Online Access:

https://web.archive.org/web/20101219094432/http://...

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2085 KB

Summary

Martin Associates was retained by the Port of Houston Authority (PHA) to estimate the economic impacts generated by marine cargo activity at the public and private marine terminals located along the Houston Ship Channel. The public marine terminals are those owned by the Port of Houston Authority and include the Houston Public Grain Elevator #2, the Fentress Bracewell Barbours Cut Container Terminal, the Bulk Materials Handling Plant, Jacintoport, the Care Terminal, the PHA terminals in the Houston Turning Basin, and the Woodhouse Terminal. Private terminals include the petroleum refineries, general cargo terminals (i.e., Manchester Terminal), the petrochemical plants and the dry bulk/fertilizer terminals.

The impacts are measured for the year 2006 and separate economic impact models have been developed to measure the impacts generated by the PHA public facilities and the impacts generated by the total marine cargo and vessel activity at both the public and private marine terminals. These economic impact models can be used to estimate annual updates, as well as to test the sensitivity of the impacts to changes in such factors as marine cargo tonnage levels, labor productivity and work rules, new marine facilities development and expansion, and the impacts of harbor and channel deepening. The models can also be used to compare the economic impacts of marine activity with non-maritime development of waterfront land.

For the most part, the same methodology has been used to estimate the 2006 economic impacts as was used to estimate the economic impacts of the Port of Houston in 2002. Therefore, the results of this study can be directly compared with those of the earlier study, which measured the economic impacts of activity in calendar year 2000.

Publ. Place

Lancaster, Pennsylvania