The Port of Houston, closed for a week after Hurricane Harvey, rebounded sharply in September with a 22% year-over-year increase in container traffic that would have been impossible without the sacrifice of others, the top official at the port acknowledged.
Some of the strength in September must be credited to the backlog built up during the last week in August, when the port was shut down.
Container traffic in August dropped 9.4% to 166,353 industry-standard 20-foot-equivalent units, or TEUs.
