{"id":10156,"date":"2016-09-12T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2016\/09\/12\/access-upgrade-for-napier\/"},"modified":"2016-09-12T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T12:34:00","slug":"access-upgrade-for-napier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/oceania\/access-upgrade-for-napier\/","title":{"rendered":"Access upgrade for Napier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entailing upgrades to various intersections and expressways, the works form part of the Government\u2019s Accelerated Regional Roading Programme aimed at fast-tracking the delivery of transport projects important to regional New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce says the access package is included within an overall NZ$245m land transport investment being made in the Hawke\u2019s Bay region over the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2015 Napier Port handled the equivalent of more than 250,000 containers &#8211; up more than 16% compared with 2014,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImproving the road access will enable more efficient and safe movement of freight to and from the port and support future growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Napier Port itself is in preparation mode for increased cargo flows, having recently initiated resource consent applications to commence construction of a new wharf and phased dredging programme, and having announced a strategic alliance with Ports of Auckland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Road-based cargo flows to and from Napier Port are expected to be enhanced through a NZ$25m government investment in local roading improvements.<\/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":[55],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10156"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}