Watco Greens Port Industrial Terminals

Watco is a leading transportation service and logistics company. Meeting customer needs on a day-today basis has enabled Watco to continually grow throughout our nearly 40-year history. Today, Watco provides transportation, material handling and warehousing, design and development, railcar repair, and logistics for customers throughout North America and Australia. For more information, visit watco.com.

Primary Commodities

Watco moves any commodity. At this site on the Houston Ship Channel, we handle ocean vessels, barges, trains, and trucks carrying a diverse variety of freight including dimensional shipments such as wind turbine components, vessels, and machinery; plastics; liquids such as chemicals, petrochemicals, and petroleum products or crude oil, refined products, and ethanol; building materials; bulk solids; and steel in all forms.

 

Key Features

 

Access

• Rail: BNSF, KCS, UP via PTRA
• Road: I-10, I-610, I-45, Beltway 8. Two secured truck entrances.

 

Capacity

• Deep-water Berths: 5 (3,200 linear feet)

• Capable of handling Panamax class vessels
  • Barge Berths: 5
  • Railcar Spots: 1,600
  • Rail Infrastructure: 31 miles, 4 rail yards
  • Liquid Racks: 3 (pipeline connectivity to tank storage/terminals)

 

Material Handling and Storage

• 1 million sq. ft. warehouse
• 130 acres outdoor laydown space
• 50,000 sq. ft. covered free trade zone space
• 94 acres uncovered free trade zone space
• Railcar storage
• 24-hour unit train unload and unloading
• 48-hour barge unit tow load/unload
• Liquids transloading (includes direct to truck)
• Manifest railcar loading and unloading
• ISO tank loading and unloading
• Truck loading and unloading
• In-plant railcar and truck loading and unloading
• Measurement services
• Tank gauges and loss control
• Meter proving
• Water injection testing (API chapter 8.2 and 8.3 certifications)

 

Mobile Railcar Repair

• M1002/M1003 certified mobile repair unit