Oakland to Open Off-Terminal Container Yard to Help With Ag Exports
The Port of Oakland is opening a 25-acre off-terminal container yard that will move containers off chassis so they can be picked up for export. The new container yard is aimed at helping agricultural exporters. Oakland is the gateway for refrigerated proteins and much of California's exports, and before the import surge, its volume was half exports and half imports, the port said in a Jan. 3 news release.
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State and federal officials met with commodity representatives, freight forwarders, trucking and warehouse operators and port officials to come up with ideas to help California agricultural exporters. “We need the shipping companies to immediately restore the export lines from Oakland to Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent,” Bryan Brandes, the port's maritime director, said.