{"id":2739,"date":"2007-11-07T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2007\/11\/07\/melbourne-deepening-2\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:24:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:24:47","slug":"melbourne-deepening-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2007\/11\/07\/melbourne-deepening-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Deepening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne is Australia&#8217;s largest container port but its draught restraints have left it unable to handle fully-laden vessels already operating in many Australian trades. Even 4,500 teu ships compromise the 11.6-metre channel to the port.Dredging is expected to begin early in the new year and will involve the removal of some 23m cu m of material.<\/p>\n<p>The Association of Australian Ports and Marine Authorities (AAPMA) has welcomed the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victorias planning minister has endorsed the urgently-needed deepening of Melbournes Port Phillip Bay channel to 14 metres. However, approvals from other ministers are still required and a raft of environmental safeguards will have to be met, overseen by an independent monitor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739","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=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2741,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions\/2741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}