{"id":4802,"date":"2016-09-29T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2016\/09\/29\/sustainable-development-at-ghent\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:42:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:42:05","slug":"sustainable-development-at-ghent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2016\/09\/29\/sustainable-development-at-ghent\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable development at Ghent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new quay wall along the Ghent-Terneuzen Canal will be constructed on the south side of the current quay wall at ArcelorMitta Ghent.<\/p>\n<p>ArcelorMittal Ghent is going to transport the existing scrap metal transport via inland navigation and maritime shipping to the greatest extent possible instead of by HGV to reduce CO2 emissions.<\/p>\n<p>This hopes to save 5,000 HGV transports for scrap metal per year and bring an improvement in internal transport and will make it possible to load the slag directly onto seagoing ships.<\/p>\n<p>The work is being carried out by marine construction company, Waterbouwbedrijf Herbosch-Kiere.<\/p>\n<p>Ghent Port Company has earmarked \u20ac7.2m for this new quay wall while ArcelorMittal Ghent will be investing \u20ac0.6 million, with the project being co-financed by the European Commission under the TEN-T-programme (Trans-European Transport network).<\/p>\n<p>This investment follows on from the ambition of the Port Company to provide suitable port infrastructure with better nautical accessibility of and access to the port and to retain existing companies in Ghent.<\/p>\n<p>The first ships are expected9 be able to moor at the end of September 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghent Port Company has started construction on a new 220m long quay wall at the Port of Qhent which will accommodate more sustainable seagoing ships and inland vessels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802","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=4802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4804,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802\/revisions\/4804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4802"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}