Port of Oakland: 2017 a record-breaking year

The port of Oakland handled the equivalent of 2.42 million teu in 2017. That figure broke the previous record of 2.39 million containers set in 2014. In addition the Californian port achieved two more milestones with 920,000 loaded import containers and 1.85 million combined imports and exports. The main driver was import growth, which rose by 4% in 2017. December imports actually came in 6.4% higher than the same month in 2016. The US port said it expects Cool Port Oakland – a 85,000 sqm temperature-controlled distribution centre – to open by September 2018. It projects that the clearinghouse for agricultural exports will handle about 30,000 containers full of chilled and frozen meat products annually. (cd)