{"id":7553,"date":"2007-10-31T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2007\/10\/31\/guayaquil-port-authority-workforce-cut-by-half\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:34:13","slug":"guayaquil-port-authority-workforce-cut-by-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/north-america\/guayaquil-port-authority-workforce-cut-by-half\/","title":{"rendered":"Guayaquil port authority workforce cut by half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In July the authority had 625 employees, which has now fallen to 300. The drop is largely due to the introduction of International Container Terminal Services Inc to the Port which has negated the need for many ancillary services normally contracted by the authority.<\/p>\n<p>The arrival of two new Gottwald mobile harbour cranes sounded the death knell on the ample workforce; previously the port had been totally dependent on ships&#8217; gear for the loading and unloading of containers and was less productive and more labour intensive as a result. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half of the workforce previously employed by Guayaquil Port Authority no longer provides services for that body following their transfer to outside companies.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-7553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553","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=7553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7555,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553\/revisions\/7555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7553"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=7553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}