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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 western terminus of I-80 is located in San Francisco as James Lick Skyway (Bayshore Freeway), just west of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. The interstate continues to the east over the bridge, connecting to Oakland and the north coast of the East Bay as the Eastshore Freeway, and then on to Sacramento , Reno , and New Jersey .
The MacArthur Maze [1] [2] [3] (or more simply the Maze; formally, the East Bay Distribution Structure [4]) is a large freeway interchange in Oakland, California.It splits traffic coming off the east end of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge into three freeways: the Eastshore (I-80/I-580), MacArthur (I-580) and Nimitz (I-880).
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
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 ...
The 70-foot (21-meter) catamaran called the MV Sea Change will transport up to 75 passengers along the waterfront between Pier 41 and the downtown San Francisco ferry terminal starting July 19 ...
The terminal opened in the twentieth century to provide a commute option for passengers headed to San Francisco across the bay. It was predated by numerous passenger, cargo, and vehicle ferries that connected the mainland with San Francisco's rather isolated peninsula before the advent of numerous bridges crossing the bay.
The airport is located 7 miles (11 km) south of Downtown Oakland and 12 miles (19 km) east of San Francisco, serving the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. The airport is owned by the Port of Oakland [ 2 ] [ 4 ] and has domestic passenger flights to cities throughout the United States and international flights to Mexico , El Salvador , and ...