The Port of San Francisco is donating 5,000 feet of containment boom to help crews trying to protect coastal areas from the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
City officials said Monday the boom was shipped to Louisiana from the Bay Area on Friday.
The Port of San Francisco expects to receive a new boom to replace the one it is donating within the next five weeks.
Containment booms are temporary floating barriers used to contain oil spills.
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The government estimates that between 19.7 million and 43 million gallons of oil has spilled into the Gulf since the nation's worst-ever spill began more than 40 days ago.
The BP PLC is planning yet another attempt to stop the flow of oil on Wednesday.