{"id":9597,"date":"2012-04-10T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T09:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2012\/04\/10\/environmental-survey-in-the-middle-east\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:52:18","slug":"environmental-survey-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/middle-east-greenport\/environmental-survey-in-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental survey in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Saunders, international director of Emapsite in the Middle East, said: \u201cIt\u2019s a natural step given our specialist expertise and the rising demand in the Middle East for GIS as a critical part of engineering, environmental and multidisciplinary projects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;We want our work to enable government and private sector organisations to play an active part in establishing a sustainable and environmentally responsible region for generations to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s expertise includes environmental impact assessments, habitat and ecosystems mapping for the engineering and construction industries and can help ports with urban and infrastructure planning.<\/p>\n<p>The second office in Riyadh compliments the original base in Jeddah and will attempt to exploit rising demand for specialist environmental expertise in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Middle Eastern customers already include the Presidency of Meteorology and Environment (PME), Ministry of Agriculture, KPMG and Saudi ARAMCO.<\/p>\n<p>Emapsite Middle East officially launched at the Gulf Environmental Forum in May 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emapsite, global specialist in GIS and environmental monitoring, has expanded its operations in the Middle East with the opening of a second office in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9597","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=9597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9599,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9597\/revisions\/9599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9597"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}