Texas

===Ports===
{{main|List of ports in the United States}}
[[File:Houston Ship Channel.jpg|thumb|[[Port of Houston]] along the [[Houston Ship Channel]]|left]]
Around 1,150 [[seaports]] dot Texas's coast with over {{convert|1000|mi|km}} of [[channel (geography)|channels]].<ref name="ports1">{{cite web |title=About Texas Ports |publisher=Texas Ports Association |url=http://www.texasports.org/ |access-date=May 7, 2008}}</ref> Ports employ nearly one-million people and handle an average of 317&nbsp;million [[metric tons]].<ref name="portbenefits">{{cite web |title=Benefits of Texas Ports |publisher=Texas Ports Association |url=http://www.texasports.org/benefits/ |access-date=May 7, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728092744/http://www.texasports.org/benefits/ |archive-date=July 28, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Texas ports connect with the rest of the U.S. Atlantic seaboard with the [[Gulf Intracoastal Waterway|Gulf]] section of the [[Intracoastal Waterway]].<ref name="ports1" /> The [[Port of Houston]] today is the busiest port in the United States in foreign tonnage, second in overall tonnage, and [[List of world's busiest ports by cargo tonnage|tenth]] worldwide in tonnage.<ref name="porthouston">{{cite web|date=March 31, 2008 |title=General Information |publisher=The Port of Houston Authority |url=http://www.portofhouston.com/geninfo/overview1.html |access-date=May 7, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509141210/http://www.portofhouston.com/geninfo/overview1.html |archive-date=May 9, 2008 }}</ref> The [[Houston Ship Channel]] spans {{convert|530|ft|m}} wide by {{convert|45|ft|m}} deep by {{convert|50|mi|km}} long.<ref name="HGnav">"Welcome to the Houston-Galveston Navigation Channel Project Online Resource Center" (description), [[United States Army Corps of Engineers]], December 2005, [http://www.swg.usace.army.mil/items/hgnc/ United States Army Corps of Engineers] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090109052637/http://www.swg.usace.army.mil/items/hgnc/ |date=January 9, 2009 }}</ref>