Port of Oakland
Container ship facility in Oakland, California / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Port of Oakland is a major container ship facility located in Oakland, California, in the San Francisco Bay. It was the first major port on the Pacific Coast of the United States to build terminals for container ships. As of 2022, it was the eighth busiest container port in the United States, behind the ports of Los Angeles, New York/New Jersey, Long Beach, Savannah, Houston, Virginia, and Seattle/Tacoma.[2] Development of an intermodal container handling system in 2002 after over a decade of planning and construction positions the Port of Oakland for further expansion of the West Coast freight market share. In 2019 it ranked 8th in the United States in the category of containers.[3]
Port of Oakland | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
Location | Oakland, California |
Coordinates | 37°47′43.92″N 122°17′4.57″W |
Details | |
Opened | 1927 |
No. of berths | 20 |
Draft depth | 50 feet |
Air draft | 220 feet, restricted by Golden Gate Bridge |
Statistics | |
Vessel arrivals | 1,775 (FY 2014)[1] |
Annual container volume | 2,394,069 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) (FY 2014)[1] |
Website https://www.portofoakland.com/ |