{"id":2494,"date":"2006-09-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2006\/09\/01\/medways-ridham-ready\/"},"modified":"2006-09-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T23:00:00","slug":"medways-ridham-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2006\/09\/01\/medways-ridham-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Medways Ridham ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conventional wisdom would suggest that only the largest container terminals can achieve productivity rates of more than 30 moves per crane hour, while even they require major box exchanges per ship call in order to do so. Even fairly busy import\/export facilities often struggle to post anything better than 25 moves per crane hour. At the bottom end of the scale, feeder ports have traditionally struggled to maintain high productivity levels, pleading calls from small vessels generating modest box exchanges as the main mitigating factor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody is trying to gear up for this, &#8221; says port manager Mick Bearman. &#8220;We import a lot of steel, and this will be needed for the new stadiums in the corridor. A lot of timber will also be going up there &#8211; this is what a lot of stocks are coming in for already. And, of course, aggregates come in here, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ridham is also examining the options for onward transport by barge via the Thames, either for delivering construction materials or removing contaminated soil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Medway port of Ridham is also getting ready to meet Olympics-related demand and reporting busy times already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-container-cargo-handling"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}