b'APRIL 19 - MAY 9, 2021PACIFIC COAST PORTS19(PACIFICcontinued from(ACTcontinued from page 17) page 18)TEUs annuallywhereas theSeaportVillagerevitaliza-PortofOaklandsthroughputtion; East Harbor Island and is around 2.4 million TEUs aCentralEmbarcaderorede-year. But the real difference forvelopment. ocean container carriers is theAdditionally, the Port will balance.Whilecontainerizedfocusonstrengtheningits freight at LA and Long Beachcargo business, rebuilding its areheavilyweightedonthecruise business in the wake of inbound legthe Port of Oak- the pandemic, and activating lands throughput is relativelythe waterfront.balanced.Forinstance,backTheporthastwoprimary in2018beforethepandemiccargo facilities, the Tenth Avenue skewered the global box traf- Marine Terminal (TAMT) and fic,thePortposted965,000National City Marine Terminal TEUs full inbound to 897,804(NCMT). TAMT is the Ports TEUs full outbound. Given theomni-terminal,whererefrig-high volume of Asian imports,eratedcontainers,break-bulk notchingnearly900,000andbulkcargosarehandled. TEUsofexportsisspecial.TAMT also features an on-dock The exports are largely drawncold storage facility, providing fromNorthernCaliforniaandapproximately300,000-squareTAMT is the Port of San Diegos omni-terminal, where containers, break-bulk and bulk cargos are handled. include a considerable amountfeetoftemperature-controlled of agricultural goods and otherstorageandcargohandling.roll-off cargo terminal. As theAutomotiveServices.NCMTInFebruary,thePort heavycommodities,whereasNCMTislocatedonthemost advanced vehicle import/ islocated10milesfromthehandled6,270TEUsloaded most of the inbound freight isNationalCitywaterfrontatexportfacilityontheWestU.S.Mexico border, and pro- inbound,400TEUsloaded highvalue,lowweightcon- the south end of San DiegoCoast, it is home to the Westvides on-dock rail and nearbyoutboundand5,506TEUs sumergoodswhichtypi- Bay and is the Ports roll-on,Coastsautoprocessor,Pasharegional freeways.empty outbound.fies U.S. ocean tradefreight cubing-outonthehighvalue inbound leg and weighing-out on the export side. Nonetheless, the relative balance is important for Cali-fornian exporters whose main markets are in Asia and ocean carriers whose goal of repo-sitioning boxes back to Asiaideally with paying freightis all best served by the bal-ance of the Port of Oakland. Partially, because of this import/exportdynamic,the importsurgethathasover-whelmed the San Pedro ports has not had the same impact on numbers in the Port of Oakland, whichthroughFebruarywas marginallyoffpace(-0.5%) from2020posting389,650 TEUs.AlthoughFebruarys totalofmorethan80,000 import TEUs was a record.Becauseoftheconges-tion in the San Pedro ports, it was an interesting develop-mentthat CMA-CGM began a new service from Asia with Oaklandasthefirstportof callinsteadofLosAngeles orLongBeach.Whilethe Port of Los Angeles Seroka believes that the diversion is short term, it does illustrate the value of the Port.And the Port of Oakland is working to capitalize on its position.Recently,thePort of Oakland recently finished erectingthreenewgantry cranesatOaklandInterna-tionalContainerTerminal (OICT).StevedoringSer-vices of America (SSA) oper-atesOICTandorderedthe cranes from Shanghai Zhen-huaHeavyIndustriesCom-panyLimited(ZPMC).The cranes are the tallest in North Americaata174feetfrom the deck and will improve the Ports efficiency and compet-itive position.But the largest challenge tothePortofOakland,will likelynotcomefromother WestCoastportsbutrather (PACIFICcontinued on page 22)'