{"id":3059,"date":"2007-12-15T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2007\/12\/15\/cochin-to-upgrade-quay-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2007-12-15T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-15T16:33:00","slug":"cochin-to-upgrade-quay-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2007\/12\/15\/cochin-to-upgrade-quay-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Cochin to upgrade quay infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BTP Jetty is to be widened from 15 metres to 23 metres, while existing structures at the North Coal Berth will be replaced with a new structure, 300 metres longer than the existing one. This is scheduled to be operational by the end of next year.<\/p>\n<p>The existing 10.5 metre draught in the port is also to be deepened to 12.5 metres.<\/p>\n<p>Cochin is anticipating a huge loss in container traffic once the Vallarpadam container transhipment terminal comes on line, and is therefore opting to focus on handling more bulk cargo to compensate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cochin port is to upgrade much of its existing quayside infrastructure to make cargo handling operations easier for dry bulk cargo.<\/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":[25],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059","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=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}