Port of Harlingen & Port of Brownsville

The Port of Harlingen and Port of Brownsville provide an efficient way to ship packages out of the Rio Grande Valley. The ports are an important link in the transportation network of the Rio Grande Valley and are served by Union Pacific Railway. 

• Provides efficient and economical transportation to points as close as Corpus Christi and as far as the Great Lakes.
  
• Terminal docks and other facilities ease shipments into and out of the Port of Harlingen.
  
• Sites up to 150 acres (on- and off-channel) are available for industrial firms requiring economical transportation and attractive land lease rates.
• Located 4 miles east of Harlingen, on Highway 106 and 25 miles west of Mile Marker 646 on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, which stretches from the Mexican border at Brownsville, Texas, along the entire coast of the Gulf of Mexico to St. Marks, Florida.  
• Harlingen channel is maintained to a width of 125 feet and a depth of 12 feet (16 feet in the turning basin) and is supplied by the Arroyo Colorado, a fresh water river.
  

• Normal capacity of dry hopper barges are 1,500 to 12,000 short tons. Liquid barges carry between 24,000 and 28,000 barrels. Stevedoring services are available by various independent companies who can quote all inclusive costs for the service required.
• Single and three phase power is available at standard, primary and secondary voltage. 
• A 4-inch main brings natural gas to the Port of Harlingen at approximately 200 pounds of pressure.
  
•  The Port of Harlingen is served by the City of Harlingen Waterworks System. The Port has an elevated 200,000 gallon water tank to assure the Port tenants of adequate water quantity and pressure. 
  

• 650 foot concrete general dry cargo wharf
• 100 foot dry bulk wharf
• 5 smaller docks (50' x 25') located near the turning basin and extending down the Harlingen channel
• Up to 150 acres for open storage
• On and off channel industrial sites up to 150 acres
  

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• Has operated as a deep water port since 1936.
• Located 23 miles southeast of Harlingen via US Highways 77/83 and FM 511. 
• The Port is located at the end of a 17-mile long ship channel that meets the Gulf of Mexico at the Brazos Santiago Pass.
• The Port’s man-made basin is 4,200 feet long and varies in width from 400 feet to 1,200 feet. Authorized depths range from 36 feet in the Turning Basin to 44 feet in the Entrance Channel. 
• Governed by the Brownsville Navigation District, which also owns all waterfront facilities at the Port.
• Offers barge, rail and highway transportation linkages.  
• Owns 8 transit warehouses (440,000 square feet) and facilities for handling commodities and bulk liquids.
  

• 10 deep sea dry cargo docks (8 shedded)
• 4 deep sea liquid cargo docks
• 2 liquid cargo barge docks
• 1 dry cargo barge dock
• 450,000 square feet of open dockside aprons