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Dolly shuts petrochemical ports along Texas coast

HOUSTON
Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:12am EDT

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Hurricane Dolly was closing petrochemical ports along the Texas coast on Wednesday morning, the U.S. Coast Guard and ship pilots associations said.

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Ship pilots in Houston stopped steering ships along the waterway to the busiest U.S. petrochemical port due to rough seas and the port of Corpus Christi, which serves three refineries, was shut, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

Pilots were still running to Texas City, Texas.

It was unknown when the ship pilots might resume running ships to the port of Houston or when the port of Corpus Christi would reopen, according to the Coast Guard.

The eye of Hurricane Dolly was expected to cross the Texas coastline near the Mexican border by noon CDT (1700 GMT) on Wednesday, according the U.S. National Hurricane Center.

(Reporting by Erwin Seba, editing by Matthew Lewis)
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