Cargo vessel alongside the dock at the Port of Brownsville with DIX crews working the cargo

Port of Brownsville · Since 1947

Three generations moving cargo for the border.

Stevedoring, steamship agency, warehousing and logistics for the United States and Mexico, from the oldest full-service stevedoring company at the Port of Brownsville.

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1947Founded at the Port of Brownsville
3Generations of the Ostos family
800,000Square feet of warehouse storage
100+Crane operators, stevedores and staff
4Offices in Texas and Mexico

What we do

Ship to destination, one team

From the moment a vessel enters the channel until the cargo reaches its customer, DIX handles the ship, the cargo and the paperwork.

Stevedoring & Cargo Handling

Experienced crews, cranes and equipment to load and discharge bulk, break-bulk, project and heavy-lift cargo at the Port of Brownsville.

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Steamship Agency

DIX Agency has attended vessels since 1947: pilots, tugs, customs and crew needs, around the clock, in Brownsville and along the Texas coast.

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Warehousing

Brownsville Gulfside Warehouse: covered and open storage, rail service and foreign-trade-zone status, minutes from the docks.

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Logistics & DIX Mexico

Truck, rail and barge arrangements from the dock to final destination in the U.S. and Mexico, with daily tracking.

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Terminals & Ports Served

Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Harbor Island and Port Lavaca, plus partner ports in Mexico.

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Born on the border

We know the people, the facilities, the equipment and the routes for moving cargo from the deepwater Port of Brownsville to its destination at competitive cost.

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DIX longshoreman guiding a bundle of steel bars at the dock

Est. 1947

A Brownsville family

The Ostos family has worked this port since its first ship

Richard "Dick" Ostos was at the Port of Brownsville when its first cargo vessel docked in 1936. In 1947 he started the company that became DIX, and in the 1960s he was shipping millions of cartons of Mexican citrus to Germany through Brownsville.

His son Bob led the company from the late 1970s. In 1996 the Brownsville Navigation District renamed the road along the south side of the ship channel R.L. Ostos Road to honor the elder Ostos. In 2010 the third generation, cousins Lee and Bobby Ostos, took the helm, and in 2022 the Port of Brownsville presented DIX with its Chairman's Award for 75 years at the port.

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Cargo we handle