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The port is located on San Pedro Bay in the San Pedro neighborhood of Los Angeles, approximately 20 miles (30 km) south of downtown. Also called Los Angeles Harbor and WORLDPORT LA, the port complex occupies 7,500 acres (30 km²) of land and water along 43 miles (69 km) of waterfront. It adjoins the separate Port of Long Beach. It is the busiest port in the entire United States, and employs over 16,000 people.
The Port of Long Beach is the second busiest seaport in the United States and the tenth busiest port in the world. It is in Long Beach, California and it adjoins the separate Port of Los Angeles. It is the fifth busiest gateway by value when compared with all U.S. freight gateways—land, air, and sea.
Terminal Island is an artificial island located in Los Angeles County, California between Los Angeles Harbor and Long Beach Harbor. Originally a mudflat known to the Spanish as Isla Raza de Buena Gente, and later called Rattlesnake Island, it has officially been Terminal Island since 1918. The west half of the island is part of the city of Los Angeles, while the rest is part of the city of Long Beach. The island has a land area of 11.56 km² (4.46 sq mi) and had a population of 1,467 as of the 2000 census.
The Port of Oakland was the first major port on the Pacific Coast of the United States to build terminals for container ships. It is now the fourth busiest container port in the United States; behind Long Beach, Los Angeles, and Newark. Development of an intermodal container handling system in 2002 culminated over a decade of planning and construction to produce a high volume cargo facility that positions the Port of Oakland for further expansion of West Coast freight market share.
The Port of Redwood City is a marine freight terminal on the western side of the southern San Francisco Bay, on the West Coast of the United States. This marine terminal is situated within the city of Redwood City, California. The port was developed from a natural deepwater channel discovered in the year 1850, at the mouth of Redwood Creek. From the early use as a log float port, commercial use expanded to a variety of industrial commodities; moreover, it is considered the birthplace of shipbuilding on the North American west coast. As of 2004 the annual freight shipments have reached about two million metric tons. The Port of Redwood City provides berths for dry bulk, liquid bulk, and project cargoes, along with certain recreational opportunities and public access to San Francisco Bay.
The Port of Redwood City is the only deepwater port in the South
San Francisco Bay. Significant expanses of bay mud are present
nearby: in Redwood Creek, WestPoint Slough and especially at the
mouth of Redwood Creek, where bay muds extend almost two kilometers
into San Francisco Bay. In fact, the Port of Redwood City is the
only major California port with significant expanses of natural
habitat area in its immediate proximity.
The Port of San Francisco lies on the western edge of the San Francisco Bay at the Golden Gate. It has been called one of the three great natural harbors in the world, but it took two long centuries for navigators from Spain and England to find the anchorage originally called Yerba Buena. A port, as was said in its early days, in which all the fleets of the world could find anchorage.
The larger waterfront area extends from the anchorage of the
Golden Gate bridge through the Marina district all the way around
the north and then east shore of the city of San Francisco to the
city line beyond Candlestick Point. The Port of San Francisco is
currently a semi-independent organization run by a five-member
commission, appointed by the Mayor and approved by the Board of
Supervisors.