According to a statement on Tuesday, Port of Corpus Christi customers moved 51.1 million tons of commodities through the Corpus Christi Ship Channel in the second quarter of 2025.
The tonnage marked a record second quarter for the port, besting the prior second quarter record of 50.6 million tons, set in 2024.
Crude oil shipments in the first six months of this year totaled 65.2 million tons, up more than 3.8 percent over the same period last year.
Moreover, LNG volumes increased by nearly 10.8 percent to 8.5 million tons, the port stated.
Additional increases occurred in dry bulk, breakbulk, and other bulk liquids.
The port previously said that LNG volumes were up 12.3 percent to 4.3 million tons in the first quarter of this year.
This means that LNG volumes reached 4.2 million tons in the second quarter.
The US port recently completed the $625 million ship channel improvement project.
Also, the four-phase channel improvement project increased the depth of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel.
The newly expanded waterway enables more efficient transport of crude oil, LNG, and other commodities.
LNG volumes are expected to continue growing in the future, as Cheniere’s Corpus Christi liquefaction facility is currently undergoing a capacity expansion.
The Corpus Christi terminal consists of three trains, each with a capacity of about 5 mtpa.
Cheniere is also building the Corpus Christi Stage 3 expansion project.
In March this year, Cheniere’s EPC partner, Bechtel, turned over care, custody, and control of CCL Stage 3 Train 1 and associated systems to Cheniere ahead of schedule, while Cheniere recently started producing LNG at the second train.
The Stage 3 expansion project at Cheniere’s Corpus Christi LNG export plant in Texas is 85.4 percent complete.
