{"id":10169,"date":"2011-05-13T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2011\/05\/13\/building-of-green-port-hull-set-to-create-hundreds-of-jobs-contractors-sought\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:57:11","slug":"building-of-green-port-hull-set-to-create-hundreds-of-jobs-contractors-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe-greenport\/building-of-green-port-hull-set-to-create-hundreds-of-jobs-contractors-sought\/","title":{"rendered":"Building of Green Port Hull set to create hundreds of jobs \u2013 contractors sought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contractors are now being sought for the multi-million pound Green Port Hull development by Association British Ports (ABP) to transform the area around Alexandra Dock and provide a catalyst for thousands of jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The \u00a385 million construction work, including building a 600m quay, is expected to start in November to prepare the port for the arrival of Siemens.<\/p>\n<p>In January, the energy giant announced it had chosen Hull as the preferred location for its \u00a380 million UK wind turbine manufacturing facility.<\/p>\n<p>The three-year construction programme is expected to get under way at the end of November in time for proposed opening of Siemens\u2019s factory in July 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HUNDREDS of jobs could be created in Hull with the start of one of the biggest construction projects the city has ever seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169","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=10169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10171,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169\/revisions\/10171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10169"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}