{"id":234433,"date":"2026-03-24T18:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234433\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T18:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:03:16","slug":"port-of-oakland-cargo-volume-falls-in-february-as-lunar-new-year-slows-vessel-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234433\/","title":{"rendered":"Port of Oakland cargo volume falls in February as Lunar New Year slows vessel traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Port of Oakland handled 163,254 twenty-foot equivalent units in February, down 16.7% from January and 14.5% from a year earlier, as vessel traffic slowed in part because of Lunar New Year-related shipping disruptions, port officials announced Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The port said vessel calls dropped from 86 in January to 72 in February, partly due to planned blank sailings tied to factory closures during the holiday period.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite the decline, exports remained stronger than imports. Oakland processed 86,796 export TEUs in February, compared with 76,458 import TEUs, underscoring its role as a key gateway for U.S. agricultural and refrigerated goods, the port said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Import volumes fell 19.6% year over year, while exports declined 9.5%, showing greater resilience amid shifting market conditions, according to the port.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Port of Oakland handled 163,254 twenty-foot equivalent units in February, down 16.7% from January and 14.5% from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[6898,389,106150,69003,61032,143,145,144,6827,4586,23571,87333],"class_list":["post-234433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-exports","tag-alameda-county","tag-importation","tag-logistics","tag-lunar-new-year","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-port-of-oakland","tag-shipping","tag-supply-chain","tag-trades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}