{"id":3019,"date":"2006-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2006\/08\/01\/take-the-next-dance-with-charleston\/"},"modified":"2006-08-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T23:00:00","slug":"take-the-next-dance-with-charleston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2006\/08\/01\/take-the-next-dance-with-charleston\/","title":{"rendered":"Take the next dance with Charleston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re expecting the permitting process to be cleared in November, &#8221; says Byron Miller, director of public relations at South Carolina State Ports Authority.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re talking to three carrier groups about their involvement in this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The terminal will boast 3,500 ft of berth and yard space totaling 280 acres.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing has been ruled out in terms of who operates the terminal, &#8221; he said. &#8220;We think it is about five years before it will be ready.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The port authority is also attempting to acquire a site on Jasper Island on the Savannah River to build a second new container terminal, but securing the land has created conflict with authorities in Georgia. &#8220;Even a best case scenario would not see this come to fruition for another 7-8 years, &#8221; said Mr Miller.<\/p>\n<p>The Authority recently ordered four container cranes from China&#8217;s ZPMC for delivery next year along with 16 rubber-tyred gantry cranes from Konecranes. &#8220;We&#8217;ve probably got three dozen of these RTGs, &#8221; said Mr Miller.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a fine piece of equipment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The port of Charleston expects to receive clearance to construct a new 1.4m teu capacity container terminal before the end of the year at the former Charleston Navy Base.<\/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":[23],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","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=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}