Port Houston has secured a $48 million grant through the U.S. Maritime Administration’s Port Infrastructure Development Program to fund construction of a new container yard and exit gate at the Bayport Container Terminal. The port will contribute roughly $56 million in matching funds, bringing the total project value to over $100 million. The investment is structured under Port Houston’s STORM (Strategic Terminal Operations & Resilience Measures) application, which targets four operational objectives: adding 440,000 TEUs of cargo handling capacity, cutting truck turn times through a new East Exit Gate projected to save more than 11 million truck hours over the project’s lifetime, modernizing drainage and utility systems for hazard resilience, and expanding electrical and communications infrastructure to support current equipment generations and terminal security.