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Houston Stays Top in Brazil Container Trade

The Port of Houston maintains its position as Brazil's largest U.S. compiled statistics show. From 2010 to 2012, the Port of Houston Authority (PHA) handled a total of 311,314 twenty-foot equivalent units of trade with Brazil. In 2012, PHA's market share was 17 percent of the total trade with Brazil, according to statistics compiled from the Journal of Commerce's PIERS data. Brazil is South America's largest economy and has shown potential forfurther growth.