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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 stood at 12,398 TEUs in November 2025, compared to 14,035 in October 2025. This represents a reduction of 11.66 percent.

Sample. There are 335 observations in the monthly series displayed in the plot above. The time range covered by the series extends from January 1998 to November 2025.

History. Check out some descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: container throughput recorded a bottom of 9,124 TEUs in October 2021; it attained a maximum of 30,819 in March 2011; it had a mean value of 17,493.

Latest values

Date Value - Twenty-foot equivalents (TEUs)
2025-09-30 11229.25
2025-10-31 14035.0
2025-11-30 12397.5

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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