{"id":280747,"date":"2026-04-22T19:53:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280747\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:53:46","slug":"port-of-oakland-march-volumes-rebound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280747\/","title":{"rendered":"Port of Oakland March volumes rebound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"466\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Port-of-Oakland-Aerial-of-busy-marine-terminal-696x466.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Port of Oakland - Aerial of busy marine terminal\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Port of Oakland handled 198,667 TEUs in March 2026, a significant recovery from the 163,254 TEUs recorded in February, as vessel call activity normalised following the Lunar New Year slowdown.<\/p>\n<p>The port received 86 vessel calls during the month, up from 72 in February, driving the improvement in overall container throughput.<\/p>\n<p>March trade flows were notably balanced, with imports reaching 99,091 TEUs and exports 99,576 TEUs, reflecting an even split between inbound and outbound cargo activity.<\/p>\n<p>The result reinforces Oakland\u2019s established profile as a port with structural strength in both import and export trade.<\/p>\n<p>On a year-on-year basis, March volume was down 8.6 percent compared to March 2025. Year-to-date throughput through the first quarter totalled 557,859 TEUs, a 7.3% decrease from the same period in 2025, consistent with the broader softness in West Coast import volumes observed across the quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Brandes, Maritime Director at the Port of Oakland, described March as a stronger month and highlighted the expected arrival of additional shipping services in the coming weeks as a factor that should sustain operational momentum into the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The port anticipates continued vessel activity and steady cargo flows as new services begin calling Oakland in the near term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Port of Oakland handled 198,667 TEUs in March 2026, a significant recovery from the 163,254 TEUs recorded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-280747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280747","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=280747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}