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The Oakland Seaport is a major container ship facility located in Oakland, California, in the San Francisco Bay. It is operated by the Port of Oakland port authority along with the Oakland International Airport. It was the first major port on the Pacific Coast of the United States to build terminals for container
The port authority's primary responsibilities are the operation of the Oakland Seaport and the Oakland International Airport. It also operates a commercial real estate business as the owner of Jack London Square, Airport Business Park, and more than 875 acres (354 ha) of waterfront property. It operates a municipal electric utility that serves ...
Port of Oakland: 50 feet (15 m) 220 feet (67 m) Port of San Francisco: 50 feet (15 m) 220 feet (67 m) Port of Hueneme: 40 feet (12 m) Unlimited Port of Los Angeles: Greater than 52 feet (16 m) Unlimited Port of Long Beach: Greater than 50 feet (15 m) Unlimited Port of San Diego: Greater than 35 feet (11 m) Unlimited
It was closed in 1998, and in 1999, the Navy transferred the entire 531-acre (2.15 km 2) property to the Port of Oakland. The new owner plans to develop it for intermodal freight transport involving a marine terminal, railroad, and truck cargo activities. The site is environmentally contaminated due to past activities.
In 1993, the company continued to increase its revenues, and entered a 30-year agreement with the Port of Los Angeles to open a new terminal, at a cost of $70 million. The next year, it almost doubled the size of its Seattle terminal as well, increasing it from 83 acres (340,000 m 2) to 160.
Military Ocean Terminal (MOTBY), Bayonne, New Jersey, closed 1999 [3] [4] New Orleans Military Ocean Terminal (NOMOT), New Orleans, Louisiana, Closed December 1994 [ 5 ] Military Ocean Terminal Bay Area (MOTBA), headquartered at Oakland Army Base , Oakland, California, closed 1999.
In 1972 International Transportation Service completes a 52-acre container terminal on Pier J with a 1,200-foot wharf and two gantry cranes. Maersk Line Pacific completes on Pier G a 29-acre container terminal. Port of Long Beach is the largest container terminal in America. [21] With the rapid expansion of the port, pollution also increased.
The OTR was jointly acquired in 1943 by the Western Pacific Railroad and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to take over the Key System's freight railroad known as the Oakland Terminal Railroad. Today, the OTR is now the West Oakland Pacific Railroad ( reporting mark WOPR ) that operates on 10 miles (16 km) of track. [ 1 ]