{"id":4768,"date":"2016-09-12T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2016\/09\/12\/injection-for-whanganui-port\/"},"modified":"2016-09-12T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T12:34:00","slug":"injection-for-whanganui-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2016\/09\/12\/injection-for-whanganui-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Injection for Whanganui port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The comprehensive revitalisation project has been announced through a partnership of the Whanganui District Council and Government, which will the latter make an initial investment of NZ$500,000 as part of the Manawatu-Whanganui Economic Action Plan.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the project as \u201cexciting and ambitious\u201d, Whanganui Mayor Annette Main also highlights the stimulus provided by cornerstone investor Q-West Boat Building, which could lead to development of a marine industry training facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe investment and relocation of Q-West is part of a bigger vision to re-imagine and re-purpose Whanganui\u2019s port area to be a centrepiece for commercial possibilities and public recreation,\u201d says Mayor Main.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Port Revitalisation has terrific potential to attract new investment to the region.\u201d<br \/>Understood to have once been a thriving port, the facilities have not made a profit since the 1970s and have progressively fallen into disrepair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new marine services centre, expanded boat-building industry and visitor services and recreational area are planned for the Whanganui Port Precinct.<\/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-4768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768","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=4768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4768"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}