Brownsville Port (port code: USBRO) is medium-sized deep-water seaport in Texas, the United States. Situated 15 nautical miles from the open sea at the west-southwest end of Brownsville Ship Channel, it is the southernmost port in Texas.
Covering s total of approximately 40,000 acres, the port has 6 liquid cargo docks and 13 cargo docks. There are more than 1 million square feet covered storage and more than 3 million square feet open storage.
The port handles approximately 4.6 million tons of cargo annually. It handles a wide range of cargoes including dry and liquid bulks, grain and general cargoes. Major dry bulk cargoes passing through this port include ores, fertilizers, petroleum, grain, sulfur, minerals, ores, aluminum, and grains.
The types of vessels regularly calling at this port are passenger vessels, accounting for about 30%; cargo vessels, taking up around 19%; and tankers, taking a proportion of 9%. The maximum length of the vessels recorded to having entered this port is 243 meters. The maximum draught is 11.8 meters. The maximum deadweight is 82,073t.