Credit Port of Oakland

The US port of Oakland is moving to facilitate agriculture exports as it pushes for more transpacific sailings.

It intends to set up a dedicated container yard for this traffic, flanked by support from federal and state agencies to ease flows through the port.

“The goal is to provide relief to agricultural exporters facing shortages of export capacity and skyrocketing logistics costs,” said the port.

Arguably, the most critical element is the effort to persuade shipping lines to restore or launch transpacific services.

“We ...

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