Remote yard monitoring in Houston

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Yards along the Ship Channel and the Beltway

Port Houston runs eight public facilities along the 52-mile Houston Ship Channel, including the Barbours Cut and Bayport container terminals. It is the largest container port on the Gulf Coast, handling 75 percent of US Gulf Coast container traffic, and in 2024 it moved 220.1 million short tons of foreign waterborne cargo, more than any other US port. The Texas Comptroller counts $223.5 billion in trade through the port in 2024, led by exports of mineral fuels, organic chemicals and plastics from the refineries and petrochemical plants that line the channel.

The channel runs past Pasadena, Deer Park, La Porte, Baytown, Channelview and Galena Park, and freight leaving it heads out on I-10, I-45 and I-69/US 59 or around the I-610 loop and Beltway 8. Truck terminals, container yards and warehouses sit along all of those routes. Verisk CargoNet describes opportunistic cargo theft as historically common in the Houston logistics corridor, although in early 2026 it saw some of that activity giving way to more targeted operations elsewhere in the country.

Container yards and industrial sites need more than a camera recording to a box. Sigma's agents watch every camera live, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with AI person and vehicle detection flagging movement. When someone is in the yard who shouldn't be, an agent gives a live, instant talk-down and escalates to police, fire services and your contacts. Yard Operations adds truck and trailer logs, damage inspections and visual seal checks on video for outbound trailers.

Also covering Pasadena, Deer Park, La Porte, Baytown, Channelview, Galena Park, Katy, Sugar Land.