{"id":10279,"date":"2016-10-20T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2016\/10\/20\/bollore-ports-starts-extension-works\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:58:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:58:05","slug":"bollore-ports-starts-extension-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/africa\/bollore-ports-starts-extension-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Bollor\u00e9 Ports starts extension works"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The extension works will include the construction of a quay extension of 270 m to a depth of 13 m, in addition to the existing 707 m; creating a median of 3.5 hectares; and the establishment of a power plant dedicated to the terminal.<\/p>\n<p>Two gantry cranes will also be installed to significantly improve productivity of the Port of Freetown.<\/p>\n<p>The new dock will accommodate larger vessels of up to 6,000 teu, taking the total capacity of the container terminal to 750,000 teu from 90,000 teu currently.<\/p>\n<p>The work is scheduled to be completed by September 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The extension is expected to bring with it the creation of hundreds of local jobs and a skills transfer programme for Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bollor\u00e9 Ports has started construction on the extension of the container terminal at the Port of Freetown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10279","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=10279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10281,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10279\/revisions\/10281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10279"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}