{"id":467861,"date":"2026-09-18T11:38:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/467861\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:38:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:38:34","slug":"port-of-oakland-begins-640m-turning-basins-project-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/467861\/","title":{"rendered":"Port of Oakland begins $640m turning basins project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials from the Port of Oakland and the US Army Corps of Engineers have signed an agreement to widen and modernise waterways to accommodate larger cargo vessels. <\/p>\n<p>The design pact marks the initial stage of a $640 million infrastructure project intended to maintain maritime trade capacity, the port noted.<\/p>\n<p>Cargo ships entering the port frequently reach 1,300 feet (396 metres) in length and must navigate an estuary that currently offers 150 feet (46 metres) of clearance on either side. <\/p>\n<p>Congresswoman Lateefah Simon described the widening initiative as &#8220;a prime model of local, state, and federal governments coming together to drive innovation and economic growth&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials from the Port of Oakland and the US Army Corps of Engineers have signed an agreement to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[434,143,145,144,6827,435,113604],"class_list":["post-467861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-north-america","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-port-of-oakland","tag-united-states","tag-us-army-corps-of-engineers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467861","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=467861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}