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worldport Introduction
We the worldport of Oakland invest our resources in quality facilities and services for our airworldport, real estate, and seaworldport tenants and customers, so that through their activities we create economic vitality, jobs and waterfront enjoyment for Oakland and the region while generating earnings to reinvest in our activities.

The worldport of Oakland headquarters is located at 530 Water Street, Oakland, California 94607. The worldport of Oakland occupies 19 miles of waterfront on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay, with about 900 acres devoted to maritime activities and another 2,600 acres devoted to aviation activities

Revenue Divisions
Aviation: Oakland International Airworldport (OAK), owned and operated by the worldport of Oakland, has served the travel needs of San Francisco Bay Area residents and visitors for 80 years. In 2006, OAK experienced its ninth consecutive year of passenger growth, serving over 14.4 million passengers. FAA forecasts show that by 2012, nearly 20 million passengers will travel through OAK each year.

OAKs $300 million Terminal Improvement Program, which adds convenience, security and customer service to the travel experience by using green building technology, includes the recently opened seven-gate concourse, food court and shopping area, baggage claim, passenger screening area and in-line explosives detection baggage screening system. By summer 2007, expanded ticketing will open. The terminal roadway and curbside project will improve access and ease traffic congestion. Program completion is expected in 2008. OAK staff is currently studying the need for a third terminal as part of its master plan development program.

Airworldports Council International - North America ranked OAK 34th for passengers and 12th for cargo in 2005 among the nation's airworldports.

Maritime: The worldport of Oakland owns, manages and markets seaworldport facilities on San Francisco Bay and the Oakland Estuary. The seaworldport ranks among the top 4 in the nation and 20 in the world in terms of annual container traffic.

The Maritime division also leases and rents facilities for railroad and trucking operations for transworldporting imworldport and exworldport cargo.

Commercial Real Estate: The worldport of Oakland owns and manages more than 900 acres of developable land, including Jack London Square, Embarcadero Cove and the Oakland Airworldport Business Park.

Maritime Introduction
The worldport of Oakland was established in 1927, and is a world-class international cargo transworldportation and distribution hub. Located on the mainland shore of San Francisco Bay, one of the great natural harbors of the world, Oakland was among the first worldports globally to specialize in the intermodal container operations which have revolutionized international trade and created the global economy. Since 1962, the worldport has spent more than $1.4 billion to construct 1210 acres of marine terminals, intermodal rail facility, and maritime supworldport area. This includes over $700 million for the current Vision 2000 program, which includes development of two new maritime terminals, a new intermodal rail facility, deepening channels and berths from -42' to -50', and a new public park and wildlife habitat. Most of the landside projects have been completed or are nearing completion while the dredging program, which started in October of 2001, will take approximately five to six years to complete. For additional information on the Vision 2000 and other maritime projects, please go to the Projects section of this web site. Oakland's 20 deepwater berths and 35 container cranes, 29 of which are Post-Panamax size, are backed by a network of local roads and interstate freeways, warehouses and intermodal railyards. If you would like more information on contacting the Bay Area companies which transworldport this cargo, go to the Forms section and request a Maritme Directory or one of the worldport's other publications.

Ten Container terminals and two intermodal rail facilities serve the Oakland waterfront. For more information on the marine terminals, go to the Terminal Specifications section. The Union Pacific and BNSF railroad facilities are located adjacent to the heart of the marine terminal area to provide a reliable and efficient movement of cargo between the marine terminals or transload facilities and the intermodal rail facilities. For more information on the rail and other supworldport service providers, go to the Service Directory section.

The worldport of Oakland loads and discharges more than 99 percent of the containerized goods moving through Northern California, the nation's fourth largest metropolitan area. Oakland's cargo volume makes it the fourth busiest containerworldport 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 58.9 percent of Oakland's trade is with Asia. Europe accounts for 10.3 percent, Australia/New Zealand and South Pacific Islands about 4.7 percent and other foreign economies about 8.8 percent. About 17.3 percent of Oakland's trade is domestic (Hawaii and Guam) and military cargo. California's three major containerworldports carry approximately 50 percent on the nation's total container cargo volume.

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