Tulsa Port of Catoosa

The 2500 acre Port of Catoosa is Tulsa's "unsung" shipping hero,delivering a unique capability to Tulsa businesses as one of the largest inland ports in the United States.

Located at the head of navigation for the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System, the Port of Catoosa offers year round barge, rail and truck transportation services, and can handle and trans load more than five million tons of cargo per year.

The McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System is a 440-mile waterway linking Oklahoma and the surrounding states to ports on the nation’s inland water transport system. The Port of Catoosa is located at the head of the navigation for the system where the waterway travels to the Mississippi River at Montgomery Point. The 18 locks and dams on the McClellan-Kerr create a “staircase” where, in an average year, 13 million tons of cargo are transported.

In addition to navigable waters, the Port of Catoosa is served by three class I rail carriers – the BN-SF, the Union Pacific and the Kansas City Southern (via a short line switch on the South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad). It is a scheduled service point for all three carriers, with rail transit times for most bulk cargo roughly equal to barge within 750 miles and days shorter beyond 1000 miles.

The Port is also served by most nationwide contract trucking carriers averaging over 900 trucks per day. Located in the geographic center of the US, truck traffic can reach either coast in just two days.

From the Port of Catoosa, ISTI is able to ship to the Port of Houston via truck in one day and to the Port of New Orleans in 11 to 13 days via barge. The availability of shipping options from the Port of Catoosa are an integral part of the ISTI success story.