{"id":9324,"date":"2015-08-21T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2015\/08\/21\/gujurat-port-project-dropped-by-landt\/"},"modified":"2015-08-21T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T11:20:00","slug":"gujurat-port-project-dropped-by-landt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/container-cargo-handling\/gujurat-port-project-dropped-by-landt\/","title":{"rendered":"Gujurat port project dropped by L&amp;T"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s engineering and construction company, Larsen and Tourbo (L&amp;T) were set to build the multi-purpose port, as well as a 2,000MW coal-based power project, but it\u2019s understood the company has written to the government to withdraw its plans.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Gujarat Ecology Commission (GEC) was appointed to carry out the environmental impact assessment, but the presence of corals and mangroves put a stop to the development.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, L&amp;T is understood to be in talks with Adani Group to sell its stake in the Kattupalli International Container Terminal near Chennai. L&amp;T is now said to want to exit the terminal and talks are at an advanced stage.<\/p>\n<p>L&amp;T has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plans to develop a new port in Kacchigadh, near Gujarat, India, have been scrapped over environmental reasons, according to local media \u2018Live Mint\u2019.<\/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":[58],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-container-cargo-handling"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9324","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=9324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9324"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}