{"id":10310,"date":"2016-10-30T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2016\/10\/30\/apmt-refutes-valencia-collapse-claims\/"},"modified":"2016-10-30T20:55:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T20:55:00","slug":"apmt-refutes-valencia-collapse-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe\/apmt-refutes-valencia-collapse-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"APMT refutes Valencia collapse claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Transcont, the problem is down to the movement in recent weeks of Hanjin containers to APM Terminals from Noatum container terminal. This has resulted in long queues of traffic, with t ruck drivers now faced with waits of up to three hours to either drop off or pick up containers.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to APM Terminals, Hanjin vessels switched to its terminal after they could not reach an agreement with their current Valencia terminal operator during the bankruptcy phase.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our goal was to help Hanjin &#8211; and the many Valencia cargo owners who had cargo awaiting delivery on Hanjin vessels. As a result, we went from normally handling 2,500 trucks a day in our terminal to 2,800-2,900 trucks,\u201d a spokesperson told <em>Port Strategy<\/em>. Gate opening hours were also extended so that no trucks were left stranded at the end of the day and some routine maintenance was deferred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re in contact with all the local trucking organisations to try and schedule activities for the best in this high volume period,\u201d said APMT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valencias association of road haulage owner and drivers, Transcont, has claimed that the APM Terminals box handling facility at the port is in a state of \u201ccollapse\u201d.<\/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":[15],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10310","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=10310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10310"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}