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Economic Alliance–Houston Port
Region
The Economic Alliance – Houston Port Region cultivates, monitors
and markets a vibrant regional economy in collaboration with fourteen
communities surrounding the 25-mile Houston Ship Channel, home to
the world's most influential energy corridor and nation's second
largest trade port. The Alliance realizes that when organized together,
its members can more effectively market and grow a vibrant economy
through the strengths of local commerce. By building awareness of
economic trends and impacts, the Alliance attracts businesses with
an advantageous tax structure, a legislative and regulatory climate
conducive to economic activity, including incentive, finance, and
business assistance programs. The goal of the Alliance is to bring
together Partners of Strength in collaborative arrangements that
leverage resources and deliver a more comprehensive economic development
plan. Communities in the Alliance not only gain from a regional
focus on economic vitality, but also a united voice representing
its nearly one million citizens and employees. For more information,
call 281-867-1112 or visit www.allianceportregion.com.
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Port of Houston Authority
The Port of Houston Authority owns and operates the public facilities
located along the Port of Houston, the 25-mile long complex of diversified
public and private facilities designed for handling general cargo,
containers, grain and other dry bulk materials, project and heavy
lift cargo, and other types of cargo. As the one of the largest
ports in the world, Houston’s port also is ranked first in
the U.S. in foreign waterborne tonnage and second in total tonnage.
Each year, more than 7,000 vessels from around the world and 150,000
barges call at the port. Houston's port supports more than 785,000
jobs throughout Texas paying $7.2 billion in wages and salaries,
generating $10.9 billion in business revenues, and contributing
$3.7 billion in state and local tax revenues. A vital element of
Houston's infrastructure, the Port of Houston is an approved delivery
point for the Coffee "C" futures contracts traded on the
New York Board of Trade's Coffee, Sugar & Cocoa Exchange. For
more information, call 713-670-2400 or visit www.portofhouston.com.
Greater Houston Coffee
Association
The Association was formed in 2001 to bring together the many interests
already involved with the importation of green coffee through the
Port of houston. local and regional founder members recognized there
was a need to internationalize Houston's posture as an up-and-coming
coffee center and that a unified effort through an active, non-profit
trade association was necessary to bring this about. The Association,
state lawmakers, and the Port of Houston Authority were successful
in obtaining New York Board of Trade green coffee exchange status
in 2003 — the only port to be so designated west of the Mississippi.
The Greater Houston Coffee Association is now reaching out to international
and regional coffee producers and processors that already recognize
Houston's unique location as the immediate gateway to 25 million
sophisticated consumers. For more information, call 713-671-0947
or visit www.houstoncoffeeassn.org.
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