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Petrochemical Disaster Still Hampering Efforts To Clear Houston Shipping Bottleneck

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The backlog of vessels waiting to move through the Houston Ship Channel grew on Monday, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The area remained closed to traffic for a third day as emergency workers attempted to clear a petrochemical spill from the Intercontinental Terminals storage facility. Thirty-one vessels waited to enter the busiest U.S. oil port on Monday, while another 31 waited to leave, up from 26, respectively, on Sunday morning. Fuels spilled after a 10-foot wide section of a containment barrier breached on Friday at Mitsui & Co Inc’s ITC facility outside of Houston. The breach sending fuel, water and fire suppressant foam to a waterway that connects Houston to the Gulf of Mexico. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality continued to assess the contamination levels in the channel.

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