{"id":2277,"date":"2016-01-27T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2016\/01\/27\/whanganui-port-upgrade-commences\/"},"modified":"2016-01-27T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T11:17:00","slug":"whanganui-port-upgrade-commences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/oceania\/whanganui-port-upgrade-commences\/","title":{"rendered":"Whanganui port upgrade commences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Annette Main says the aim is to make the port more viable for future use through a NZ$2.5m initiative that will include the progressive housing of more onshore-related business and a staged development of the recreational boating area.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Rob Vinsen said the project is \u201cwelcome news\u201d and ends a several-year period were \u201clittle progress\u201d was seen at the port.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been a lot happening behind the scenes,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarly discussions with Port Taranaki ended when it became clear that a future offshore industry was to be postponed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, strategic decisions on the port\u2019s future and engineering studies of both the river management and a structural upgrade of Wharf 1 have proceeded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am looking forward to progress at our port, including a clean-up of neglected areas and getting on with much needed maintenance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A project to upgrade Whanganui\u2019s commercial port with a focus on \u201ckeeping windows of opportunity alive\u201d has been initiated by the Whanganui District Council and local Maori.<\/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":[23],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","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=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}