page_title: Port of Stockton
section_title: Port services
hierarchical_section_title: Port of Stockton / Port services
caption_attribution_description: English: California Green Trade Corridor map, The Ports are part of the California Green Trade Corridor project, as ships move cargo much greener than trucks and trains. Green Trade Corridor Marine Highway (ports of Oakland-Stockton-West Sacramento) can improve goods movement through Northern California.
context_page_description: The Port of Stockton is a major deepwater port on the Stockton Ship Channel of the Pacific Ocean and an inland port located more than seventy nautical miles from the ocean, in Stockton, California on the Stockton Channel and San Joaquin River-Stockton Deepwater Shipping Channel. The port sits on about 4,200 acres, and occupies an island in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, and a portion of a neighborhood known as Boggs Tract. It is governed by a commission appointed by the City of Stockton and San Joaquin County. In 2012 it employed 4,500 people and made about $4.9 million in local tax funds.
context_section_description: The deepwater channel is about 35 feet (10 meters) deep, handling ships up 900 feet (275 meters) and 60,000 tons. Dockside transit sheds of up to 1.1 million square feet (102,000 sq. meters). Warehouse storage of up to 7.7 million square feet (715,000 sq. meters).
  The port runs a marine highway barge service for moving containers to Oakland for shipping.
  The Port is a Foreign Trade Zone.
  The port has two 140-ton mobile harbor cranes.
  The port handles both large volume of bulk cargo and containerization shipments on container ship.
  The port is served by three railroads: Central California Traction Company handles local rail shipments while Union Pacific (UP) and Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) provide rail connections to the rest of North America. Port of Stockton has 60 miles of rail lines shipping over 2,090,400 short tons a year.
  The port is serviced by Interstate 5, California State Route 4, and California State Route 99.  Over 200 truck companies serve the Port. Interstate 80 is about 50 miles north of the port.
  The port handles containers going in and out of Sacramento, as the Port of Sacramento is a container free port.
  The port is part of the California’s Green Trade Corridor Marine Highway project, as ships move cargo much greener than trucks and trains. Green Trade Corridor Marine Highway (ports of Oakland-Stockton-West Sacramento) can improve goods movement through Northern California.
caption: California’s Green Trade Corridor Marine Highway project to Port of Stockton
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