{"id":1335,"date":"2007-12-19T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2007\/12\/19\/still-time-to-shine-on-the-west-coast\/"},"modified":"2007-12-19T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T16:33:00","slug":"still-time-to-shine-on-the-west-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/container-cargo-handling\/still-time-to-shine-on-the-west-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Still time to shine on the West Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Operators on the West Coast are trying to figure things out, based on the fact that there hasn&#8217;t been a tremendous amount of acreage coming on line in the past few years,&#8221; she says.Against this background, the FuturePorts initiative was originally set in motion by a contractor who was concerned that development had come to a halt in the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. FuturePorts members include representatives of terminal operators, railway operators, construction companies, chambers of commerce and other interested groups.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is an opportunity to pull together private interests to see where we could focus and move forward and highlight the economic benefits derived from the ports,&#8221; says Ms Jones. &#8220;It needs to be a balanced approach &#8211; environmental issues should be resolved, but in parallel, not one at a time. We should not lose momentum. FuturePorts is trying to get people more active in support of the projects, be more vocal publicly, attend public hearings &#8211; and it is also aiming to provide its members with access to key political leaders in order to have a dialogue.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the past couple of years have beenvaried for volumes into Southern California ports, and this year hasbeen rather flat, the longer-term forecast is put at 6%-7% growth ayear in the regions ports, according to Halcrows Stacey Jones.<\/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-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-container-cargo-handling"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}