{"id":5058,"date":"2017-02-22T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T09:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2017\/02\/22\/condemnation-of-portugals-barreiro-project\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:44:08","slug":"condemnation-of-portugals-barreiro-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2017\/02\/22\/condemnation-of-portugals-barreiro-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Condemnation of Portugal\u2019s Barreiro project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This followed statements from the Sea Minister, Ana Paula Vitorino, that the project could proceed if the private sector assumes responsibility for the cost and if environmental studies come back positive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy invoking arguments that are outdated in respect of the current port reality, it is suggested that the government intends to make the Portuguese State a guarantor for private investors to guarantee a facility that is unnecessary, redundant and ruinous,\u201d said the ACP.<\/p>\n<p>The ACP\u2019s own study into Barreiro indicated that the new container terminal would not be viable, or even useful for the country\u2019s box handling requirements. The study was handed over to Ms Vitorino in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Portugal, the Porto Commercial Association (ACP) has criticised the stance taken by the government in respect of the proposed new Barreiro Container Terminal, labelling such a facility as \u201cunnecessary, redundant and ruinous\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058","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=5058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5060,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058\/revisions\/5060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5058"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}