Critical piece of Bayport Cruise Terminal to be sold to highest bidder

HOUSTON – The Port of Houston’s ill-fated cruise terminal is being dismantled.

The terminal is no longer seeking cruise business and port commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to sell a vital part of the Bayport cruise terminal’s infrastructure.

The gangway that leads passengers onto cruise ships is for sale to the highest bidder.

The cruise ships themselves, all of them, left for good in April.

The Pasadena project opened in 2008 and never turned a profit.

Harris County residents will keep paying for it for decades on their property tax bills.

"Just to see 100 million dollars spent on something never needed and wasn't going to work doesn't make sense," Sen John Whitmire said.

The port commissioners who approved the project are all gone.