Latelast week NuStar Energy, which is based in San Antonio, Texas, formally openeda third dock at its North Beach Terminal that is linked to a 1.6 million barrelstorage facility and capable of loading 30,000 barrels of every hour.

In a clientbriefing issued shortly after Erik Nikolai Stavseth of Arctic Securities pointedout that the dock will help address the lack of rapid loading capacity atCorpus Christi, which has been a problem for Jones Act tonnage trading in theUS Gulf for some time.

“We