{"id":7663,"date":"2005-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2005\/12\/01\/argentina-invests-to-handle-giants\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:35:20","slug":"argentina-invests-to-handle-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/north-america\/argentina-invests-to-handle-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina invests to handle giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cranes, the country&#8217;s first, grace Rio de la Plata and Exolgan in Dock Sud.<\/p>\n<p>Both ports are investing in equipment so as to be able to serve the giant new vessels. Dock Sud has also been obliged to dredge and widen its access channel.<\/p>\n<p>Puerto Nuevo is following suit, although its dredging has been delayed. It is hoped that the end of this year will finally see the work commence. Rio de la Plata has invested US$175m in total in its facility and is set to handle 550,000TEUs this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentinas leading terminals have been forced to invest in post-Panamax gantry cranes by carriers whose larger ships are putting pressure on South Americas east coast to meet their needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-7663","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\/7663","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=7663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7665,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7663\/revisions\/7665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7663"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=7663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}