{"id":7116,"date":"2006-09-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2006\/09\/01\/apm-inks-vietnam-and-jordan-agreements\/"},"modified":"2006-09-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T23:00:00","slug":"apm-inks-vietnam-and-jordan-agreements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/asia\/apm-inks-vietnam-and-jordan-agreements\/","title":{"rendered":"APM inks Vietnam and Jordan agreements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hopes are that the port will serve Vietnam&#8217;s future in global commerce.<\/p>\n<p>With its 83m people, the Vietnam market, is expected to quickly develop as another manufacturing site in Asia, giving rise to increased exports.<\/p>\n<p>The port of Cai Mep is one hour steaming time from the main shipping lane and has a draught of 14m.<\/p>\n<p>Construction on the terminal is scheduled to begin later this year and opening is scheduled for mid 2009.<\/p>\n<p>APM has also teamed up with Aqaba Development Corporation to operate and extend Jordan&#8217;s Aqaba Container Terminal. The 25-year agreement has been agreed to &#8220;achieve additional capacity and improve operational efficiency&#8221;, according to the companies. The plan aims to achieve an annual capacity of 2.4m teu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APM Terminals, together with Saigon Port Co, has reached an agreement to build a new container terminal at Cai Mep some 15 miles south of Ho Chi Minh City. Construction of the terminal is expected to start later this year and completion is scheduled for mid-2009.<\/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-7116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116","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=7116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7116"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=7116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}