The Port of Corpus Christi should be able to load Aframaxes, Suezmaxes and partially loaded VLCCs to export US crude to international markets by October 2020, an executive with The Carlyle Group, an investor in the port’s expansion, said Tuesday. “We expect to be operational in October 2020 at 54 feet,” Ferris Hussein, managing director at The Carlyle Group, said on a panel at CERAWeek by IHS Markit. Dredging the Corpus Christi port to 54 feet will allow Aframaxes, Suezmaxes and partially loaded VLCCs to export crude, he said. That 54 feet allows “a little more than half” of a laden VLCC, Hussein said. Hussein said the port would be dredged to 75 feet a year and a half later, which would imply that VLCCs would be able to fully load crude by April 2022. […]