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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 ships.
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 ...
Top 50 ports by tonnage. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) issues an annual report, the US ports and states data, pursuant to the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (section 6018 of the "FAST" Act), of the top 25 ports in the United States.
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.
Port of Tacoma: Greater than 50 feet (15 m) Unlimited Port of Portland: 40 feet (12 m) 196 feet (60 m) 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 ...
The Oakland Alameda Estuary presented many unique localized peculiarities. It is a major shipping channel and the shipping traffic of the Port of Oakland along with a highly developed shoreline prohibited a new bridge. Another fact, tunneling in an earthquake and liquefaction plagued region is extremely expensive for a rather poor community.
The advent of containerization in the 1960s effectively sounded the death knell for the Port of San Francisco as a major marine terminal, as it had no room to expand to build a large new container handling facility like the Seventh Street Terminal at the Port of Oakland. A few piers added container handling equipment, but heavy traffic ...
Wilmington Marine Terminal, Delaware; Port of New York and New Jersey. Howland Hook Marine Terminal, Staten Island, New York; Port Jersey Marine Terminal, Jersey City, New Jersey; Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal, New Jersey; Red Hook Marine Terminal, Brooklyn, New York; Port of Savannah, Georgia; Port of Charleston, South Carolina; Port ...