{"id":2850,"date":"2008-07-03T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2008\/07\/03\/tanger-med-takes-its-toll\/"},"modified":"2008-07-03T21:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T20:26:00","slug":"tanger-med-takes-its-toll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2008\/07\/03\/tanger-med-takes-its-toll\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanger Med takes its toll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While overall traffic rose 0.7% to 6.5m tonnes, container traffic fell by around 3,500 teu to 351,015 teu for the quarter. In March alone, the throughput drop was in the order of 14.39%, during which 19,000 fewer teu passed through the facility. The following month saw another 1% decrease in traffic to 417,370 teu.<\/p>\n<p>While part of the downturn is certainly due to the weaker economy, speculation suggests that the opening of Tanger-Med has also impacted negatively on the port, which relies almost wholly on transhipment traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reach of Moroccos Tanger Med behemoth is already being felt across the Mediterranean, with Las Palmas Port reporting a drop in container throughput over the first quarter.<\/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":[13],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850","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=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}