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February 2009 Monthly Analysis
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TRADE & TRANSPORT
TEU Traffic & Airline Passengers
The traffic of both full export and import containers traveling through the Port of Oakland decreased between January 2008 and January 2009 – full exports decreased 15.2 percent while full imports decreased 11.3 percent. Empty container traffic also declined during this period, with empty exports decreasing 15.1 percent and empty imports 36.0 decreasing percent.
Oakland International (OAK), San Francisco
International (SFO) and San Jose Mineta (SJC)
Airports continued to see year-over-year
decreases in passenger traffic in January 2009.
Various air carrier closures and reductions in
the number of flights have caused ridership
numbers at OAK and SJC to trend downward since
the fall of 2007. Ridership at OAK in January
2009 was decreased 32.8 percent from the January
2008 number, while ridership at SJC also fell
17.8 during the same period. SFO posted a 1.3
percent increase in ridership between December
2007 and December 2008*.
*January 2009 numbers for SFO were not
available. Return to
February 2009 Economic Analysis
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