{"id":7267,"date":"2009-12-02T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2009\/12\/02\/antwerp-reduces-dues\/"},"modified":"2009-12-02T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T12:24:00","slug":"antwerp-reduces-dues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe\/antwerp-reduces-dues\/","title":{"rendered":"Antwerp reduces dues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furthermore, the port is to drop its dues by 10% for transhipment of conventional and breakbulk cargo such as steel, fruit, paper and wood.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are conditions. The port explains that since these types of freight are faced with a number of structural problems, it is linking the reduction in rates to the condition that the labour unions and employers &#8220;make a serious contribution towards greater efficiency&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The port does not reckon on any further linear discounts, but says it is &#8220;open to bilateral talks&#8221; with shipping companies. In the meantime, the fees charged to concession holders have also been frozen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antwerp Port Authority has frozen most of its dues at 2008 levels to combat losses and lend a hand to the struggling shipping industry.<\/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-7267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7267","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=7267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7267"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=7267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}