The Port of Houston is continuing a steady rate of growth to become one of the top ports in the world, a leader in energy exports and imports as well as new energy sources, and the Port of Galveston is among the fast-growing in America for cruise ships -- with more growth expected under the incoming Trump administration.
While it may be years before the Port of Galveston reaches new status as the third largest for cruise ships, it brings hundreds of millions of dollars per year into the area as the fourth largest in America.
Galveston is home to some of the top cruise lines, such as Princess and Disney.
And Port Houston is well known for imports and exports of all kinds, with an added emphasis on energy shipping, an industry that's expected to shine as the Trump team moves into the White House.
The business of processing natural gas into a frozen state to be shipping to energy-starved Europe and elsewhere is among the quickest-growing sectors of the energy business, but the Biden-Harris administration called a temporary halt to new additions to that business, referred to liquid natural gas or LNG.
Candidate Donald Trump said more than once that he plans to quickly reverse the Biden moratorium on new LNG, a move that would add prosperity not only to Port Houston and the Port of Galveston areas, but also ports up and down the Texas and Louisiana coasts, where LNG is being processed and increasingly shipped.
"We need to open up the markets around the world. So things like this LNG pause that the Biden administration imposed on the industry must go away, and I think you will see it go away very quickly," according to former Energy Secretary Dan Broullette.
And while there have been constant calls for the past three years for more renewable energy strategies, those too have been part of the Port of Houston's success, importing parts for wind energy turbines among other things.
Recent excitement about Southeast Texas becoming a hub for the new energy source Hydrogen is being tempered by experts who say it will take years and billions of dollars for such new energy to come to practical use.
But new energy, too, will remain part of the plans for the Port of Galveston and Port Houston.