San Francisco Bay Is Filled with Boats, but What Do They Do?

Wikipedia says they all were sold in 2014; whatever they were, it was a fairly short lived experiment.

ha ha I knew something felt off.

There was a proposal for restarting ferry service and possibly developing the Alviso location circa 2010, which I looked at around when the Richmond ferry opened last month. They spent a few years evaluating it but concluded that proceeding now would be too expensive, due to accumulation of silt from various environmental mishaps during the 20th century making the river channel narrower and shallower. The silver lining is that restoration is expected to reverse the trend, which would allow the plan to be revisited without expensive dredging as the channel clears naturally.

In the meantime there are still plans for other South Bay terminals, such as Redwood City. The ferry system is one of the most exciting things going on in local transit developmemt.

NB: most standard shipping containers are actually 40 feet long, so a TEU is half the standard-sized box you'll see, and you can divide by two to get about 1.194 million of those handed by PoE.

There are 20 foot containers, they're just not nearly as common as the 40s.