{"id":7499,"date":"2006-10-01T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2006\/10\/01\/gulftainer-lands-comoros-islands-contract\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:33:37","slug":"gulftainer-lands-comoros-islands-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/middle-east\/gulftainer-lands-comoros-islands-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulftainer lands Comoros Islands contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gulftainer aims to expand port capabilities at Moroni Port by increasing the cargo storage area, constructing warehousing facilities and introducing the latest, state-ofthe- art, cargo handling equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The Moroni deal is effective immediately, while the operations and management of Mutsamudu port are scheduled to start in 2007. Peter Richards, general manager of Gulftainer, commented: &#8220;This is a significant occasion for two main reasons; firstly that this contract represents a further step in our efforts to develop our international links and raise our profile as a port management company. &#8220;Secondly it allows Gulftainer to use its well established expertise to help develop the transport gateways of a country which will certainly benefit from the cost savings through efficient cargo handling at its ports.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Arab Emirates container terminal manager and operator Gulftainer has agreed a 15-year contract to operate, manage and upgrade the Comoros Islands ports of Moroni and Mutsamudu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-7499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7499","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=7499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7501,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7499\/revisions\/7501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7499"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=7499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}