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Several factors decide which port is most compettive. Oakland wiped out San Francisco because they led the way in containers. Then LA/Long Beach blew past Oakland because stack trains were too tall for the Sierra tunnels and Oakland can only handle 11 or 12 meter draft ships. Seattle and Vancouver save a day crossing the Pacific. Ports are now wondering how or if they will be able to handle 21 meter draft Malacca Max ships with triple the tonnage of the current generation. These monsters will probably get 2 ports on the West coast and the rest will close or be shadows of what they are now.
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