{"id":2750,"date":"2008-08-22T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2008\/08\/22\/congestion-follows-auckland-consolidation\/"},"modified":"2008-08-22T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T11:24:00","slug":"congestion-follows-auckland-consolidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2008\/08\/22\/congestion-follows-auckland-consolidation\/","title":{"rendered":"Congestion follows Auckland consolidation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However, Ports of Auckland operations general manager Grant Jorey expects truck processing times will soon return to Australasian best standard of below 30 minutes through:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; increasing the ratio of straddle carriers to vehicle booking system (VBS) slots<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; altering Bledisloe Terminal receival and delivery hours to better match overflow demand<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; working collaboratively with the road transport industry to reduce VBS &#8220;no shows&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; and implementing further improvements to the Fergusson truck park to aid traffic flow and safety.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to consolidating its two-terminal workforce, with the reported loss of 29 jobs, the port company had to negotiate a new collective employment agreement with the Maritime Union of New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-hour truck turnarounds have been reported during peak service periods at Ports of Auckland following the recent consolidation of container operations on to the Fergusson Terminal.<\/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":[26],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750","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=2750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2750"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}