Port Watch

Texas ended the first half of 2023 a tad behind 2022 for both bluewater and brownwater vessel activity. Nevertheless, there are signs activity on...

A new year, a new quarter, a fresh start. The old has been displaced by the new and what has been matters no more - for the present is here.

With the closing of the books on the 2022 arrival tallies last month, there is a clear picture on the state of maritime commerce in Texas. It is...

The “Goony Bird” – pitcher Don Larsen’s nickname bestowed upon him by his Bronx Bomber’s teammates - had much to...

As the citizens of the United States celebrated the birthday of the nation’s Declaration of Independence, the pace of commerce across Texas ports...

In Texas, the good news is that more cargo is entering its ports than last year.

Despite the unfavorable circumstances stacked against them, the University of Washington athletes rowing the Husky Clipper finished first in the...

By Tom Marian, Buffalo Marine Service, Inc. The celebrated poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was in deep despair as he rushed to Washington DC to...

By Tom Marian, Buffalo Marine Service, Inc. Artist's concept of Hero (NSF Drawing). Courtey of the Antarctic Journal, May/June 1968. At 21 years...

By Tom Marian, Buffalo Marine Service, Inc. In August 1914, Germany’s execution of the Schlieffen Plan brought Belgium into the crosshairs of...

By Tom Marian, Buffalo Marine Service, Inc. 92 million miles of flights were flown by U.S. Air Force pilots as they airlifted nearly 1,800,000 tons...

By Tom Marian, Buffalo Marine Service, Inc. Sir Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Physics posits, “Whenever one object exerts a force on...