The Port of Oakland (Port Code: USOAK) is located on the west coast of the western California state of the United States, at the southeast end of the Golden Gate Strait, on the east bank of the mouth of San Francisco , across the bay Facing San Francisco and connected by a 13km-long Bay Bridge (65m high), it is the fourth largest container port in the United States. The port is a major container shipping terminal in Oakland, San Francisco Bay, California, which is the first major port terminal in the United States to build container ships on the Pacific coast. It is now the fifth busiest container port in the United States, after Long Beach, Los Angeles, Newark, and Savannah. The development of multimodal transport reached a climax in 2002 through more than ten years of planning and construction of the container handling system. The Port of Oakland added more high-capacity freight facilities to further expand the freight market share on the west coast.