{"id":602,"date":"2016-09-21T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/09\/21\/4-points-of-import-texas-ports-new-panama-canal\/"},"modified":"2016-09-21T19:54:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T19:54:00","slug":"4-points-of-import-texas-ports-new-panama-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/4-points-of-import-texas-ports-new-panama-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Points of Import. Texas Ports. New Panama Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Texas energy exports:<\/strong>\u00a0The 1st oil and gas export left the Port of Corpus Christi earlier this year<\/p>\n<p><strong>Energy exports will benefit from the new Panama Canal with its 50 foot drafts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How the new Panama Canal sets up a quagmire for Texas:<\/strong>\u00a0Texas ports can only handle a draft of 45 feet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The funding issue:<\/strong>\u00a0Most coastal states fund Port maintenance and expansion. Texas does not. It uses user fees and some local property taxes. The cost to expand the Port of Houston is $55-$60 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1060043086\">Energy Wire |\u00a0INFRASTRUCTURE:\u00a0Texas ports pick up steam as oil and LNG exports ramp up<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Texas energy exports:<\/strong>\u00a0The 1st oil and gas export left the Port of Corpus Christi earlier this year<\/p>\n<p><strong>Energy exports will benefit from the new Panama Canal with its 50 foot drafts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How the new Panama Canal sets up a quagmire for Texas:<\/strong>\u00a0Texas ports can only handle a draft of 45 feet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The funding issue:<\/strong>\u00a0Most coastal states fund Port maintenance and expansion. Texas does not. It uses user fees and some local property taxes. The cost to expand the Port of Houston is $55-$60 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1060043086\">Energy&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,23,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-ports","category-special-districts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}