Port
A military logistics and transportation terminal, on a two and a half mile long manmade peninsula in New York Harbor. Employs 1,200 people. Scheduled to be closed by the military some time in the future, to become a commercial port location.
During WWII there were 11 military installations on this remote island in the Aleutian Chain, covering approximately 188,420 acres. The primary installation was the Dutch Harbor Navy Base, which was attacked by Japanese aircraft in 1942, but was only partially damaged. The base is now abandoned,...
Long Wharf handles more tonnage than any other pier on the bay, as this is the main pier for the Chevron Refinery. A three foot diameter pipe removes an average of ten million gallons of crude oil per day off tanker ships, primarily from Alaska and a few from the Middle East.
The Port of San Francisco owns the piers and port areas in Mission Bay and a total of 1,000 acres of shoreline, and numerous buildings, from Fisherman's Wharf to India Basin, near Hunters Point. The main maintenance shops for the Port properties are located in a warehouse on Pier 50, at the Mission...
Once a container yard, the large asphalt lot of Piers 96 and 94 at the port of San Francisco are now used by the Police Department for an emergency vehicle operations training course, where vehicles maneuver through a sea of hundreds of orange cones. A scrap metal recycling operation occupies a...
Oakland is said to be the fifth most active port in the United States, and the second largest container port (after Los Angeles/Long Beach) on the West Coast, due in large part to Oakland being the western terminus for major transcontinental railways. A major expansion of the port is currently...
The Port of Redwood City is the only deepwater port in southern San Francisco Bay. It developed as early as the 1850's, as a loading area further up Redwood Creek for the redwood trees that were harvested from the hills, and taken up to San Francisco as construction material. Slowly land was filled...
Like the town itself, the port of Richmond is a product of World War II and oil. Though the principal channel (the Santa Fe channel) began to be dredged in the 1920's, it wasn't until Henry Kaiser built four shipyards at the port during the war that the infrastructure was laid for the port as we...
A 25-acre earthen promontory built for the Southern Crossing Bridge (which was never constructed) is now Heron's Head Park, so named because its shape resembles the head of a heron. The incompleted bridge project, dating from the 1960's, was going to retrieve more bay fill material from the slopes...
Seattle's port is the fourth largest in the United States. The six working piers owned by the port handle mostly containerized cargo, using 14 story tall cranes. A few major shipping companies dominate the trade in Seattle, including APL (American President Lines - which was treated to a totally...
At times equal to Seattle's port in the volume of goods it handles, Tacoma has more land available to it, and more room to expand (in 1982, Sea-Land, one of the largest trans-shipment companies in the world, was lured away from Seattle to Tacoma for this reason). Sea-Land, Evergreen, and Hyundai...
The mothball fleet is the largest collection of ships on the Pacific Ocean. Some of the fleet will be scrapped, but some of them are part of a reserve military fleet administered by the Department of Transportation's maritime administration. Most of the scrapped ships are towed through the Panama...