{"id":2945,"date":"2006-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2006\/08\/01\/menas-cuts-navigation-dues-in-gulf\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:26:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:26:51","slug":"menas-cuts-navigation-dues-in-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2006\/08\/01\/menas-cuts-navigation-dues-in-gulf\/","title":{"rendered":"Menas cuts navigation dues in Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The plan, for which environmental impact studies have not yet been completed, involves the creation of a new basin capable of turning 9,000 teu vessels.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to cutting its tariff for navigation dues by 50%, Menas is also overhauling its dues-charging structure to rationalise its impact on different classes of users. Smaller vessels below 15,000 net registered tons (nrt), which currently pay relatively little and incur proportionately-heavy administrative costs, will be exempt from all dues. At the other end of the scale, rates for larger vessels will be capped at dues equivalent to those of a 40,000 nrt vessel.<\/p>\n<p>The standard tariff will now be $1.65 per 100 nrt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navigation dues for ships calling at ports in the Middle East Gulf have been substantially reduced effective July 1 by the Middle East Navigation Aids Service (Menas).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945","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=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2947,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions\/2947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}