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With emergency workers siphoning leaked fuel from the United States’ busiest oil port, ship traffic remained at halt along the key stretch of Houston Ship Channel yesterday. A containment barrier at Mitsui & Co Inc’s Texas ITC breached on Friday spilling fuel. The Houston Ship Channel covers nine US oil refineries that process 2.3 million barrels of oil per day (bpd).