* California - Oakland container terminal to require mandatory truck appointments for imports
-- Oakland International Container Terminal on June 6 will launch a program of mandatory trucker appointments for most import loads as Oakland’s largest container terminal takes another step to accommodate increasing container volumes... Earlier this year Outer Harbor Terminal pulled out of Oakland and its facility is now vacant. Most of Outer Harbor’s container volume shifted over to OICT, which is operated by SSA Marine. OICT now handles 67 percent of the containerized cargo that is shipped through Oakland, the port said... OICT has been rolling out new programs that should help the terminal to better handle the additional business. Two months ago OICT began operating night and Saturday gates. The operator has added staff, purchased additional cargo-handling equipment and opened a new yard exclusively for empty containers...
(Photo credit: Sheila Fitzgerald / Shutterstock.com) -- Oakland, CAL, USA - JOC, by Bill Mongelluzzo - May 27, 2016Labels: trucking industry news USA
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