U.S. West Coast port
Shipping heavy equipment from the Port of Oakland
Oakland is a container port for export machinery: containers and flat racks load at four terminals, while its only RoRo service runs to Hawaii and its breakbulk berths are available for lease, so export RoRo and breakbulk go through Los Angeles[1][2].
Official website: Port of Oakland. Terminal names and figures on this page come from its own publications, listed under Sources.
Container, flat rack, RoRo and breakbulk here
| Method | At this port | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Container | Yes | Oakland International Container Terminal, TraPac, Everport and Matson[1]. |
| Flat rack | Yes | Flat racks load at the same container terminals[1]. |
| RoRo | No | Matson Terminal handles RoRo, but Matson’s RoRo service from Oakland runs to Hawaii[1][2]. Use the Port of Los Angeles |
| Breakbulk | No | The two terminals that list breakbulk, the Outer Harbor and Howard terminals, are marked available for lease[1]. Use the Port of Los Angeles |
Published sailings that load here
| Carrier and service | Method | Trade lane | Destination ports, with transit from here where published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hapag-Lloyd[5]Gemini transpacific services | Container | Shipping machinery from the U.S. to Asia and the Pacific | Yokohama · Busan · Xingang (Tianjin) · Ningbo · Yantian (Shenzhen) |
Terminals and rail
Union Pacific and BNSF rail yards sit beside the marine terminals[4]. Containers and flat racks from Northern California, and by rail from the Denver and Salt Lake City ramps, load here; a machine that has to roll or be lifted aboard for an overseas port goes south to Los Angeles.
Questions about shipping from Oakland
Can I ship RoRo from Oakland?
Only to Hawaii, on Matson. For an overseas RoRo sailing from California we use the Port of Los Angeles.
Can I ship a flat rack from Oakland?
Yes. Flat racks load at the Oakland container terminals.
Auction yards that ship through this port
Equipment auction yards for which the Port of Oakland is one of the recommended export ports, by road distance from the yard (OSRM, OpenStreetMap).
- Ritchie Bros. Sacramento, CaliforniaSacramento (Dunnigan), California88 mi, about 2 h
- Bar None Auction, SacramentoSacramento, California88 mi, about 2 h
- Ritchie Bros. Salt Lake City, UtahSalt Lake City (Lake Point), Utah711 mi, about 14 h
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from the documents below, each checked on the date shown. Carriers and authorities revise them, so we confirm the current figure when we book.
- [1]Port of Oakland, Seaport facilities, checked October 18, 2026
- [2]Matson, Hawaii service, checked October 18, 2026
- [3]Port of Oakland, Port of Oakland closes 2025 with stable cargo volumes, checked October 18, 2026
- [4]Port of Oakland, Strategic Plan 2025, checked October 18, 2026
- [5]Hapag-Lloyd, Revised WC5 westbound rotation (July 2026), checked October 18, 2026
- [6]Hapag-Lloyd, East-West Service Network (September 2026), checked October 18, 2026
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Give us the model or the measured dimensions and weight. We come back with the method, the sailing and a price, and the figures behind them.