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All Cruise Ships: Vessels may enter UNITED STATES 94° 59.12' W (LLNR-23525), and within 500 yards of a cruise ship but Houston Ship Channel Light 91, 29° not closer than 100 yards provided COAST GUARD WARNING ! 41.00' N, 94° 59.00' W (LLNR- 23375) they operate at the minimum speed The following areas are off- (NAD 1983) necessary to maintain a safe course. No person or vessel may enter within limits: Texas City: The Port of Texas City 100 yards of a cruise ship unless specifically authorized by the Captain Channel, Turning Basin and Industrial Houston: The Houston Ship Channel Canal containing all waters bounded of the Port. Security Zones for and all associated turning basins, by the area south and west of a line bounded by a line drawn between the drawn between Texas City Channel Houston, Galveston, Houston Ship Channel Light 132 Light 19 (LLNR-24810) through Cut B (LLNR-24445) and Houston Ship Inner Range Front Light (LLNR24765) and Texas City. Channel Light 1133 (LLNR-24450) and terminating on land in position (Just west of the USS Battleship 29° 23.16’ N, 095° 53.15’ W (NAD 1983) TEXAS) west to the T & N Railroad Swing Bridge at the entrance to Buffalo Bayou, including all waters The Captain of the Port Houston– adjacent to the ship channel from Galveston has established Security shoreline to shoreline and the first 200 yards of connecting waterways. Zones for certain locations within the Houston-Galveston area. For information on how to obtain authorization Bayport: The Port of Bayport to transit a Security Zone contact Sector Ship Channel and Turning Basin Houston-Galveston Waterways Management Recreational vessels and other containing all waters south of 29° 36. at 281-464-4891. unauthorized vessels/persons 45’ between the Bayport Ship Channel Light 9 (LLNR-23295) and are excluded from these areas the channel’s western-most point without the express permission of (NAD 1983). USCG Sector Houston-Galveston the Captain of the Port. 13411 Hillard St. Morgans Point: The Barbours Houston, TX 77034 Violators may be subject to Cut Ship Channel and Turning Basin Command Center Emergency No: civil penalties, fines, and/or containing all waters west of a line 281-464-4851 imprisonment. See below for a further drawn between Junction Light Sector Houston-Galveston Homeport: explanation of these areas. “Barbours Cut” 29° 41.12' N, https://homeport.uscg.mil/port- directory/houston-galveston . .

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