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Oakland Seaport: Number of empty TEU containers imported (TEU) - United States - Port of Oakland - Monthly

This series is part of the dataset: Oakland Port

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Latest updates. At the port of Oakland, one of the busiest of the West Coast, the number of empty containers imported was 11,229 TEUs in September 2025, compared to 11,169 in August 2025. This marks a gain of 0.54 percent.

Sample. In this monthly time series, there are 333 records overall. The series covers the period stretching from January 1998 to September 2025.

History. Check out some summary statistics calculated on the full sample: container throughput reached a trough of 9,124 TEUs in October 2021; it hit a peak of 30,819 in March 2011; it averaged 17,518.

Latest values

Date Value - Twenty-foot equivalents (TEUs)
2025-07-31 11793.25
2025-08-31 11169.0
2025-09-30 11229.25

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Series Metadata

Field Value
Description Number of empty TEU containers imported
Country California, United States
Economic concept Flow
Data type Quantity
Seasonally adjusted No
Deflation method Not applicable
Rescaling None
Measure type Level
Frequency Monthly
Unit Twenty-foot equivalents (TEUs)
Source Port of Oakland
Source type Municipal corporation
Data licence Unknown
Other information Not available
FSR temporal aggregation code SM1