Port of Oakland Designing $45 Million Expansion

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). The Port of Oakland (Oakland, California), the fourth largest container port in the nation, is currently working with Moffatt & Nichol Engineers (Oakland, California) to perform design and engineering for a $45 million container terminal expansion of their APL Terminal.

Located on Middle Harbor Road on a 79.4-acre site, design is underway for construction of a $4 million maintenance building, a $2 million marine operation building, and a $39 million yard reconstruction project. The yard reconstruction project will include paving, grading, electrical work, utility work, and storm drainage work. Each section will be bid separately in October 2005. Construction is anticipated to begin in December of 2005, with completion of the two buildings occurring in the late spring or early summer of 2006. The yard reconstruction project is anticipated to be complete in the year 2008.

The Port of Oakland was founded in 1927 and is considered to be a world-class international cargo transportation and distribution hub. The port occupies nineteen miles of waterfront on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay, with roughly 900 acres devoted to maritime activities and 2,600 acres devoted to aviation activities. Since 1962, the Port of Oakland has spent over $1.4 billion constructing 1,210 acres of maritime terminals, intermodal rail facility and maritime support areas, and includes over $700 million for the current Vision 2000 program. The Vision 2000 program includes development of two new maritime terminals, a new intermodal rail facility and deepening channels and berths from 42 feet to 50 feet. The dredging program, which started in October 2001, is underway and will take roughly five to six years to complete.

Ten container terminals and two intermodal rail facilities serve the Oakland waterfront. Union Pacific and BNSF railroad facilities are located adjacent to the heart of the marine terminal area providing a reliable and efficient movement of cargo between maritime terminals, or transload facilities, and the intermodal rail facilities.

More than 99 percent of the containerized goods moving through Northern California are loaded and discharged through the Port of Oakland, with movement of $30 billion worth of goods annually through their maritime facilities.

Oakland's cargo volume makes it the fourth busiest container port in the United States, and ranks San Francisco Bay among the three principal Pacific Coast gateways for U.S. containerized cargoes, along with San Pedro Bay in southern California and Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest. About 58 percent of Oakland's trade is with Asia. Europe accounts for 10.3 percent, Australia/New Zealand and South Pacific Islands 4.7 percent, and other foreign economies almost 9 percent. Approximately 17 percent of Oakland's trade is domestic (Hawaii and Guam) and military cargo. California's three major containerports carry close to 50 percent on the nation's total container cargo volume.

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