{"id":10344,"date":"2016-11-09T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2016\/11\/09\/big-hopes-for-malacca-gateway\/"},"modified":"2016-11-09T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T11:18:00","slug":"big-hopes-for-malacca-gateway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/asia\/big-hopes-for-malacca-gateway\/","title":{"rendered":"Big hopes for Malacca Gateway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The project is backed by the Chinese investors Shenzhen Yantian Port Group Co and Rizhao Port Group Co in a joint venture with a local Malaysian company, KAJ Development.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hoped that the new port will meet rising demand and help relieve congestion at the nearby ports of Klang and Tanjung Pelepas.<\/p>\n<p>Upon completion in 2019, the port should be able to handle 100,000 ships annually.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this, the project will be the largest private marina in South-East Asia upon completion with 12 precincts, including residential, commercial, cultural, entertainment and lifestyle elements.<\/p>\n<p>The project was approved in February 2015 after the Federal Government agreed in principal to the development of the deep-sea port as part China\u2019s \u201cOne Belt, One Road\u201d vision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia\u2019s deputy transport minister has confirmed that work on the RM8 billion Malacca Gateway project in Pulau Panjang will begin in 2017.<\/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":[69],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10344","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=10344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10344"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}