Houston — scrap port

Houston in the scrap trade

Gulf Coast scrap export

Houston and the Texas Gulf ports are the loading points for scrap from the US south and south-west. Bulk ferrous scrap sails from Houston, Brownsville and Mobile for Turkey, Mexico and Central America, and the port’s container terminals ship non-ferrous scrap to Asia and Latin America. The Gulf’s mills — EAF plants in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas — compete with the export trade for the same scrap.

Houston’s position gives it a shorter voyage to Turkey than the West Coast and a direct route to Mexico’s growing steel industry.

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