Ports the port of Oakland lascerà America



The terminalista group American Ports America, that it is of property of the manager of Highstar trusts Capital of New York, has announced own escape from the port of Oakland, where currently work the container terminal Outer Harbor Terminal (OHT) that it has a line of dock of 1.250 meters with depth of the -15 backdrop meters.

Ports America has announced in fact the decision to give back to the next month the area on which work OHT to the Port of Oakland, canceling so the concession contract that has a duration 50-year-old and that more from six year ago had been undersigned little ( on 5 March 2009).

The Port of Oakland has emphasized that the decision to cancel the contract is assumed unilaterally by the terminalista group. "We are disappointed - the marine director of the harbour authority has commented, John Driscoll - by the fact that Ports America is being gone some, but - it has added - we are in negotiations advanced with our partner marine in order to avoid interruptions of the activity to Oakland". The Port of Oakland has specified that it expects that Ports America tackles to all the contractual engagements until the two parts will not agree an ordered passage of the deliveries.

Moreover the harbour authority has specified that the escape of Ports America offers the opportunity to transfer ships and goods that up to now they land to terminal OHT, that it is one of the five given harbour terminals in concession to private operators, to the other terminals of the port that currently they anticipate an excess of traffic ability. "We know - it has specified Driscoll - that we have terminalistica ability that us allows the transfer of the traffic. Our priority is to assure that the terminals strive in order to allow a timely transfer of the traffic".

Moreover the Port of Oakland has found that the escape of Ports America will allow to estimate new modality of uses of the area left from the terminalista group, that it could be employed also for activity not correlated to the containerized trade and this - has remembered the Port of Oakland - would constitute an absolute innovation for the port to which, until from the Sixties of the last century, lands container vessels exclusively.

In the 2015 port of Oakland it has enlivened a traffic of the container pairs to 2.277.515 teu, with a decrease of the -4,9% regarding 2.394.069 teu totaled in the year precedence.