{"id":2609,"date":"2007-11-05T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2007\/11\/05\/indian-ports-not-performing\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:23:29","slug":"indian-ports-not-performing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2007\/11\/05\/indian-ports-not-performing\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian ports not performing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics claim that it currently takes Indian ports four times as long to handle ships compared with regional rivals &#8211; direct result of inept planning, red tape and overzealous bureaucrats.<\/p>\n<p>As an example, there is still no completion date for the new Mumbai container terminal, despite the project being launched in 2005; the award was made only recently, in August.<\/p>\n<p>Critics are therefore claiming that Indian trade will ultimately suffer because of a lack of suitable infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Port officials agree, pointing out that a capacity hike of 130% is needed over the next five years to accommodate a doubling of shipments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian government is being criticised for its inability to implement a proposed $12.4bn ports upgrade plan to enable the country to keep pace with growth in traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609","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=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2611,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions\/2611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}