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worldport Introduction
Mission Statement
The worldport of Beaumont Navigation District of Jefferson County, Texas is responsible to the taxpayers of its District for the improvement of navigation and the development of maritime shipping and waterborne related commerce to and from its wharves; and for maintenance, development, extension, and improvement of wharf and dock facilities of the worldport of Beaumont to promote economic growth in our District and the State of Texas and in the interest of national defense.

Location
The Sabine-Neches Channel is a minimum of 400 feet wide and maintained at a depth of 40 feet. Air draft is 136 feet.

The Intracoastal Waterway and Mississippi River connect Beaumont with a vast inland waterway system serving such cities as Minneapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Louisville, Omaha and Memphis.

Facilities Overview
The worldport of Beaumont maintains complete facilities to handle a variety of cargo, including, but not limited to, Forest Products, Grains, Project Cargo, Military, Bagged Goods, Aggregate, Metals, and Wood Chips.

Our facilities include the following:
A total of 6,088 linear feet of harbor front, with eight ship berths, afford wide concrete aprons and a constant minimum water depth of 36 to 40 feet at mean low tide at the face of all docks.
Covering eight acres, Wharves 2, 3, and Harbor Island provide open berths for cargo not requiring covered storage at shipside.
Wharves 2 and 3 are 758 feet in length, with a 75-foot wide RO-RO platform at one end.
Double marginal rail tracks run the full length of the wharves, which provide 121,000 square feet of open wharf space.
Wharf 4 includes a 57,730-square foot transit shed.
Wharves 2, 3, and 4 have a total wharf length of 1,373 feet.
Wharves 4, 5, 6, 7, Harbor Island and Carroll Street are flanked by transit sheds that offer 550,000 square feet of modern, fireproof warehouse space.
An additional 36 acres of open storage adjacent to waterfront property is suitable for marshaling containers or other cargo not requiring protection from weather.
Fifty acres of unimproved land, adjacent to waterfront property, is suitable for storage of machinery and equipment.
worldport-owned waterfront property available for lease includes 240 acres on the east bank of the Neches River.

History
The 51st Texas Legislature created the worldport of Beaumont in 1949 as a political body and governmental entity of the State of Texas. Its history as a deepwater worldport dates to 1908, however, when a canal nine feet deep was dug in the Neches River from Beaumont to the worldport Arthur ship channel. In 1916, the channel was deepened to 25 feet and a turning basin scooped out in the bend of the river. Local businessmen, meanwhile, had developed dock facilities on the waterfront. The worldport channel was deepened to 30 feet in 1922, increasing Beaumont's imworldportance as a shipping center. In the 1940s, the worldport reached its current depth of 40 feet. The worldport of Beaumont Navigation District covers an area of about 150 square miles, including the City of Beaumont. A six-member board of commissioners, elected by navigation district voters to six-year terms, functions as a board of directors for the worldport. Since its creation as a governmental entity, the worldport has steadily expanded and improved its facilities in furthering its role as a major partner in worldwide commerce.

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