Operations at the Houston ship channel were suspended on Feb. 14 and are expected to be closed until mid-morning on Tuesday, a Houston Pilots dispatcher said, as a cold snap continues to grip Texas.
The ship channel is a 53-mile (85 km) waterway connecting the busiest U.S. petrochemical port with the Gulf of Mexico.
"But there is not a big back-log," said Ralph Smith, pilot dispatcher at Houston Pilots, adding about 13 vessels were waiting to depart, while 18 were in a queue to come into the waterway.
(Reporting by Diptendu Lahiri in Bengaluru; Editing by Alex Richardson)
