Weather Forecast in Port Hueneme City

The Port of Hueneme in California, United States, is the only deep water harbor between Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area. Located in Ventura County on the Santa Barbara Channel, the port complex not only serves international shipping businesses but is an operating facility of Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC).

The Oxnard Harbor District (OHD) owns and operates the port. The port has five deep-water berths. As a shared port between NBVC and the Oxnard Harbor District, the U.S. Navy has over 4,500 feet (1,400 m) of berthing space for various ship platforms for use by tenant commands of NBVC: Port Hueneme and transient government contract/military shipping.

The original wharf was built to serve the new farmers on the Oxnard Plain and became the largest grain-shipping port south of San Francisco. The modern port continues this legacy as a dominant port for fruit and other produce. The port also began providing support services for the offshore oil industry as it developed in the Santa Barbara Channel. Bulk cargo and automobiles are specialties of the port . General cargo includes household goods and oversized cargo, such as cryogenic tanks for Vandenburg Air Force Base and a Tunnel boring machine to be delivered to Las Vegas that have come though the port. The ability to handle a breadth of business is one way the port distinguishes itself from the much nearby larger ports such as Long Beach and Los Angeles. The port installed pumps to suck up squid from the holds of fishing vessels when the larger ports did not have the room and were not ready to provide this service.

The District does not perform any cargo handling operations as the companies shipping through the port take responsibility in cooperation with the port district. The port owns a railroad line through Port Hueneme and south Oxnard that is operated by the Ventura County Railroad and connects nationally to the Coast Route of Union Pacific.