Oakland

Ten Class 8 Peterbilt Model 579EVs running drayage in the Port of Oakland illustrate two facts of heavy-duty electrification: Class 8 Battery-electric trucks are for real. They only work where infrastructure is in place to charge them. Shippers Transport Express (STE) has both working for it in...

The Oakland Athletics this week struck back against opponents of a proposed ballpark with a lawsuit of its own. Oakland A's President Dave Kaval said in a series of 16 tweets that the ballclub filed suit against California's Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) in Alameda County Superior...

The Port of Oakland and Oakland International Airport will keep operating despite an Alameda County order for residents to shelter in-place in an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus, the port authority said Monday evening. Six counties in the San Francisco Bay area ordered residents to...

Intermodal volumes weakened significantly, capacity stayed loose and rates were stable over the past week.  Strikingly, we saw some slight deterioration in network fluidity, as measured by intermodal train velocities, which ticked down across the Class I railroads. We expect service degradation to...

Danny Wan, who has been the Port of Oakland's interim executive director since July, on Thursday, Nov. 14 was appointed to that role on a permanent basis. Wan has been the Port of Oakland's attorney for six years and was the first openly gay member of Oakland's City Council from 1996 to 2000. A...

Shippers Transport Express, an affiliate of the stevedoring firm SSA Marine, has obtained a long-term lease on land it uses as a dray-off yard in the Port of Oakland. The port's commissioners approved a long-term lease and improvements at a 32-acre site in the port through 2033 with Shippers...

It's the same old story over at the Port of Oakland. January imports broke another record, with containerized import volumes increasing 9 percent last month over January 2018 totals. Shippers are trying to get ahead of tariffs, and retailers are stocking up ahead of the annual New Year factory...

The Port of Oakland was one of the main beneficiaries of surge container volumes last year due to the strong U.S. economy and fears of higher tariffs on Chinese goods. The third-largest port on the U.S. West Coast, Oakland notched a 5 percent growth in container volumes last year, reaching 2.5...