Port of Oakland planning container fees

Following the examples of the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles the Port of Oakland is planning on implementing their own container fees to help pay for Air Quality improvements. While I’m no fan of any kind of container fee that is, in essence, a container “tax”, at least they aren’t as prohibitive as Los Angeles and Long Beach. The Port of Oakland is proposing a $12.50/TEU fee, not to exceed $25 per loaded container. It’s on their official agenda for today’s meeting. From there you can find a link to the full Agenda Reports (upper right hand corner of the page). Pages 32-39 contain the details of this agenda item, which outline the background and reasons for implementing such a fee and what the port plans to do with the funds.