{"id":7451,"date":"2004-11-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2004\/11\/01\/broadside-from-gwyneth\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:33:09","slug":"broadside-from-gwyneth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe\/broadside-from-gwyneth\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadside from Gwyneth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to the Major Projects Association (MPA) at the Royal Society in London in October, Dunwoody said: &#8220;We should learn lessons from the Port of Vancouver and not get trade indigestion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She called on port companies to get more involved in planning to ensure that their operations are sufficiently supported with road and rail infrastructure. She also suggested that port companies must do more to help Customs cope with the burden of increasing trade growth.<\/p>\n<p>One of Dunwoody&#8217;s most damning complaints is that ports are making money and should therefore not assume that someone else will put in the links for them. Instead she called on port stakeholders to put themselves forward in front of her own Transport Select Committee and make themselves heard.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the port industry was not represented in Dunwoody&#8217;s audience of 100 plus top executives at the MPA, while rail, road, construction and consulting companies were there is force. Perhaps it&#8217;s time that UK port companies start attending the MPA as well as getting down to Westminster to shout about their plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gwyneth Dunwoody MP, chairwoman of the UK Government Transport Select Committee, has accused ports of not doing enough to ensure they have adequate infrastructure to support operations beyond their own facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-7451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451","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=7451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7453,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451\/revisions\/7453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7451"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=7451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}