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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 ...
North American container ports. This is a list of ports of the United States, ranked by tonnage. [1] Ports in the United States handle a wide variety of goods that are critical to the global economy, including petroleum, grain, steel, automobiles, and containerized goods.
The Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball planned on constructing a new ballpark for the team at Howard Terminal. On April 26, 2018, the Port of Oakland commissioners voted 6-0 unanimously to enter in to a one-year agreement to negotiate exclusively with the Oakland A’s. [17] This agreement allowed the A’s to pay the Port $100,000 to ...
Port of Savannah: 47 feet (14 m) 185 feet (56 m) Port of Charleston: 52 feet (16 m) 186 feet (57 m) Port of Wilmington (North Carolina) 42 feet (13 m) Unlimited Port of Virginia: *Norfolk International Terminals: 50 feet (15 m) Unlimited *Portsmouth Marine Terminal: 50 feet (15 m) Unlimited *Newport News Marine Terminal: 50 feet (15 m) Unlimited
Georgia Ports Authority intermodal terminal at the Port of Savannah. In Canada, the United States and Spain, a port authority (less commonly a port district) is a governmental or quasi-governmental public authority for a special-purpose district usually formed by a legislative body (or bodies) to operate ports and other transportation infrastructure.
Oakland & Alameda: All-day weekday and weekend service between the Oakland Ferry Terminal in Oakland, the Main Street Terminal on the northern shore of Alameda Island and the San Francisco Ferry Building. Richmond: All-day weekday and weekend service between the Richmond Ferry Terminal in Richmond and the San Francisco Ferry Building.
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.
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.