{"id":1431,"date":"2004-11-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2004\/11\/01\/vizag-remains-indias-number-one\/"},"modified":"2004-11-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-01T00:00:00","slug":"vizag-remains-indias-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/asia\/vizag-remains-indias-number-one\/","title":{"rendered":"VIZAG REMAINS INDIAS NUMBER ONE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The local stevedores were originally encouraged when investing in their operating licences, to also make investments in cargo handing equipment and other assets.<\/p>\n<p>Visakhapatnam Port Trust remains India&#8217;s leading port in terms of total tonnage, handling 19.1m tons during the first five months of the current financial year. It has now occupied the leading slot for the last five years. The boom in the global steel industry has helped this considerably with increased exports of both iron ore and pellets, which are expected to exceed a combined 13.5m tons. In 2003-04, the port reported a record 47.74m tons and is expected to top 49m tons set for this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The local stevedores were originally encouraged when investing in their operating licences, to also make investments in cargo handing equipment and other assets. Visakhapatnam Port Trust remains India&#8217;s leading port in terms of total tonnage, handling 19.1m tons during the first five months of the current financial year. It has now occupied the leading slot [&hellip;]<\/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":[32],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","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=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}