Port Of Port Arthur

Port Of Port Arthur, doing business as Navigation District Jefferson County Of Texas, is a local government-owned port authority based in Port Arthur, Texas that receives federal grant funding for maritime infrastructure development, port security, and foreign trade zone operations as a prime grant recipient and occasional contract awardee. The entity is a U.S. government structure — a port authority under Texas state law — and does not compete under SBA set-asides; its federal work consists of federal grants and administrative service contracts placed without set-aside designation.

Port Of Port Arthur's federal footprint is dominated by infrastructure and security grants rather than contracts. The entity has received $18.4 million in National Infrastructure Investments funding (CFDA 20.933) from the Maritime Administration as of October 2025 for redevelopment of a 25.5-acre abandoned railyard into a multimodal laydown and port facility at Port Acres, Texas, including construction management, site stabilization, concrete pavement, high-security perimeter fencing, utility relocation, and flood-risk mitigation of a vacant structure — completion targeted for March 2029. It also holds an $8 million Port Infrastructure Development Program award (CFDA 20.823) from Maritime Administration, dated September 2025, for engineering, construction management, environmental permitting, and construction of a 50,000-square-foot multimodal transit shed with rail expansion (approximately 840 track feet) and truck loading infrastructure, completing October 2028. The entity is the repeated prime recipient of Federal Emergency Management Agency Port Security Grant Program awards (CFDA 97.056): a $890,431 award effective September 2025 through August 2028, a $208,575 award for September 2024 through August 2027, a $2.5 million award from September 2022, and a $2,015,349 award from September 2021 through August 2024, funding maritime security infrastructure, surveillance, training, and operational enhancements. Contract work is minimal and administrative: a $75 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order awarded July 2025 by the Department of Energy Office of Cyber Security for Strategic Petroleum Reserve oil storage operator fees; a $15 thousand foreign trade zone fee payment to the Department of Energy Office of Enterprise Assessments (January 2024); and recurring $15 thousand foreign trade zone operating-fee payments to the Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy (2022–2023).

Federal Emergency Management Agency Headquarters Financial Assistance Awards accounts for 11 awards (the largest share by award count), while the Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy, Maritime Administration, and Economic Development Administration collectively represent secondary customers. The combined potential value across all awards stands at $160 thousand — a notably low figure driven by the source's potential-value calculation reflecting contract ceiling amounts; the actual combined dollars obligated across all awards totals $91.7 million, reflecting the substantial grant receipts. Grant work represents the preponderance of the entity's federal activity, with 31 prime awards (94% of total) including six project grants from Maritime Administration and FEMA. Activity has remained steady at two to four awards per year since 2021, with no IDVCs, GWACs, or BPAs in the source. Port Of Port Arthur subcontracts minimally as a sub-recipient under two emergency-management grants from the Texas Division of Emergency Management (November 2022 for Gulf Maritime Warehouse operations and January 2022 for COVID-19 response). The entity's federal role centers on maritime infrastructure capital investment and port security resilience rather than on service delivery or equipment supply.