Texas needs to be ready for the Panama Canal widening that’s expected to be completed by 2015, said Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Kula with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Projects to deepen the ports in Houston, for example, could start construction next year, clearing the way for not much larger cargo ships, oil tankers and liquefied natural gas tankers, he said. Texas currently doesn’t have any 50-foot ports along its coast. “We just don’t want them to go to the West Coast or East Coast,”…
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