{"id":4364,"date":"2026-09-16T16:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/?p=4364"},"modified":"2026-09-16T16:31:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:31:37","slug":"reasons-to-be-cheerful-there-are-plenty-at-greenport-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/news-greenport-congress\/reasons-to-be-cheerful-there-are-plenty-at-greenport-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons to be cheerful \u2013 there are plenty at GreenPort Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the best conferences have multiple reasons to attend beyond the all-important presentations, and next month\u2019s GreenPort Congress at Portsmouth International Port, 7-9 October, is no exception to that golden rule.<\/p>\n<p>The first day alone packs in a Workshop on Stakeholder Engagement: Turning Challenges into Opportunities, followed later in the afternoon by a behind the scenes Port Tour which will include an up-close look at Portsmouth\u2019s recently commissioned shore power, and then a Harbour Tour showing off the historic port from the water.<\/p>\n<p>Then the opening day concludes with the Conference Dinner will be held within Portsmouth Historic Dockyard\u2019s Storehouse 11, an 18th-century Grade I listed building which features the Nelson and Princess Royal Galleries featuring reclaimed wood from decommissioned ships.<\/p>\n<p>Networking opportunities will continue throughout the second day, before the conference concludes with a Technical Tour on the final day with an exclusive visit to BMT\u2019s advanced Digital Innovation and Simulation Centre (DISC) \u2013 a valuable contribution and fitting end to the 21<sup>st<\/sup> GreenPort Congress.<\/p>\n<p>To stake a place, simply click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/book\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dinner in an historic location and port, harbour and technical tours for all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-greenport-congress"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4368,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions\/4368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4364"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}