{"id":7339,"date":"2008-12-25T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-25T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2008\/12\/25\/baltic-container-terminal-gets-set-for-expansion\/"},"modified":"2008-12-25T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-25T12:24:00","slug":"baltic-container-terminal-gets-set-for-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe\/baltic-container-terminal-gets-set-for-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltic Container Terminal gets set for expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BCT has ordered an additional ship-to-shore gantry crane, and has already started some infrastructure works in connection with the new quay. &#8220;We have continued with improvements in services and also invested in equipment such as forklift trucks, as well as upgrading our software, especially regarding gate movements, to enable a smoother operation at the gate,&#8221; said BCT chairman Marin Hili. To date, the credit crunch has had very little effect on business at BCT, Mr Hili said to<\/p>\n<p> <i>Port Strategy<\/i><\/p>\n<p>. &#8220;The trade of the three Baltic States is very similar in pattern in that we have substantial cargo going to Russia and former CIS countries, and I expect the pattern to remain the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The construction of a 200-metre quay extension, due to start next year, will increase capacity at the Baltic Container Terminal in Riga from 600,000 to 1m teu.<\/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-7339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339","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=7339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7339"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=7339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}