By Patrick BurnsonPublished: September, 2010 The Port of Oakland has added state-of-the-art super-post-Panamax cranes over the past decade to handle the larger container ships that now transit the globe. When the Alameda Naval Air Station was in service, however, Oakland used thousand-ton “low-profile” cranes to accommodate flight-path safety issues. Since the base closure, those […]
By Matt Larson Published: February, 2014 Don Storz has been a deckhand for Blue & Gold Fleet for the past 16 years, and he’s had seniority for 15 of them. “I got pretty lucky,” he said. “I got seniority with Blue & Gold within a year and one week from when I started.” And he’s […]
Published: January, 2015 25th Years of Sea Lions at PIER 39 This January, celebrate the 25th anniversary of the sea lions’ arrival to PIER 39. The boisterous barking pinnipeds began arriving in droves shortly after the Loma Prieta earthquake hit San Francisco in October 1989. With a protected environment and plentiful supply of food from the Bay, the […]
