Houston shipping disrupted by fog: pilots

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Houston Ship Channel was closed to inbound vessels Thursday morning due to a dense sea fog that made navigation unsafe, the Houston Pilots Association said.

"Inbound traffic is still shut until the fog lifts. We started opening up outbound traffic around 10 am (1600 GMT)," a spokesman said.

The pilots association closed the waterway feeding the nation's busiest oil and petrochemicals port to both inbound and outbound traffic at about 1:20 am CT (0720 GMT).