SSA starts construction of Texas City marine terminal

SSA starts construction of Texas City marine terminal    Construction of SSA Marine’s greenfield marine container terminal in Texas City, near Houston, has started.
   Seattle-based SSA Marine said its subsidiary, Texas City Terminal Holdings, has issued the first construction contract for the development of Texas City International Terminal on Shoal Point to Affolter Contracting Ltd.
   SSA said Texas City International Terminal will cost more than $600 million and employ more than 1,000 longshoremen and other terminal personnel when completed.
   The privately financed terminal is scheduled to open for operations within 30 months.
   The project construction includes a three-lane, three-mile road from Loop 197 South to Shoal Point.
   The terminal will be constructed in three phases and, when completed, will feature six 1,000-foot berths, 400 acres of container terminal area and a capacity to handle over 2 million containers annually. The first phase development is 2,000 feet of berth and 125 acres of container yard.
   “No taxpayer funds will be used for the development of Texas City International Terminal,” a spokesman for SSA said.
   SSA said it has undertaken similar marine terminal projects on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal and in the port of Manzanillo, on the West Coast of Mexico.