{"id":1693,"date":"2010-11-17T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2010\/11\/17\/vietnams-cam-ranh-gets-new-lease-of-commercial-life\/"},"modified":"2010-11-17T18:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T18:53:00","slug":"vietnams-cam-ranh-gets-new-lease-of-commercial-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/asia\/vietnams-cam-ranh-gets-new-lease-of-commercial-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnams Cam Ranh gets new lease of commercial life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saying it would be a waste if it existed only to serve the Vietnamese navy, the general told reporters at the National Assembly, \u201cCam Ranh port will also be opened for cargo or naval vessels from other countries, under Vietnam\u2019s management regulations\u201d, according to the official VietNamNet Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Pointing out that many countries have deep sea ports that work as logistics centres open to foreign ships, General Thanh was tight-lipped about the scale of planned facilities, stressing it offered no threat to Vietnam\u2019s security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will also not (sic) a foreign military base and will not be leased as foreign logistical centre,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>One detail he was clear on was the timeline. \u201cWe need at least three years to build this centre. The project is currently at the starting phase,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnam\u2019s Defence Minister General Phung Quang Thanh has said that Cam Ranh Port, a major war era facility, will not become a foreign military base but will instead be adapted to serve cargo ships.<\/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-1693","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\/1693","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=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}