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The
Port of Harlingen provides efficient and economical
transportation to points as close as Corpus Christi and as far
as the Great Lakes. Terminal docks and other facilities ease
shipments into and out of the Port of Harlingen,
and over 150 acres of on-and-off channel sites are available for
industrial firms requiring economical transportation and
attractive land lease rates.The port is also an important link
in the comprehensive transportation network of the Rio Grande
Valley of Texas. Southern Pacific Company rail lines at the
port, along with switching capabilites with Union Pacific
Railways, keep products moving to Texas locations and on
throughout the U.S. and Mexico. The port is located four
miles east of Harlingen, Texas on Highway 106. It is 25 miles
west of Mile Marker 646 on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway which
stretches from the Mexican border at Brownsville, Texas, along
the entire coast of the Gulf of Mexico to St. Marks, Florida.
The Gulf Intracoastal Waterway provides over 1,300 miles of
protected waterway. The Harlingen channel is maintained to a
width of 125 feet and a depth of 12 feet and is supplied by the
Arroyo Colorado, a fresh water river. |
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