The Port of Brownsville’s Foreign Trade Zone No. 62 ranked first in Texas and fourth nationally in export shipments in FY 2011, with more than $750 million worth of merchandise, according to the newly released 73rd Annual Report of the Foreign-Trade Zones Board to the Congress of the United States. The zone’s top three export commodities by value were petroleum products, steel and lubricating oils.  

The port is grantee for Foreign Trade Zone No. 62, which includes sites at the port, Brownsville-South Padre Island International Airport, Harlingen Industrial Park and Airpark, NAFTA Industrial Park  and FINSA Industrial Park at Los  Indios. Zone status is available to any of the port’s properties and, says Port CEO Eduardo A. Campirano, provides “another tool we can utilize to attract more industry and manufacturing to our area.”