{"id":9843,"date":"2016-05-17T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T09:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2016\/05\/17\/arica-fears-loss-of-traffic-to-ilo\/"},"modified":"2016-05-17T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T09:19:00","slug":"arica-fears-loss-of-traffic-to-ilo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/south-america\/arica-fears-loss-of-traffic-to-ilo\/","title":{"rendered":"Arica fears loss of traffic to Ilo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This could, they warn, lead to cargo from Bolivia that is currently shipped via Arica switching to Ilo, in line with policy outlined by the country&#8217;s president Evo Morales.<\/p>\n<p>According to V\u00edctor Ram\u00edrez, the secretary of Trade Union Number 1 at the Port of Arica, the Bolivian government has been seeking an alternative, Peruvian outlet for some years, although this is not the favoured option of business in that country.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, he stressed that Arica has been able to improve the service offered to the Bolivians year on year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe layout of Ilo Port isn&#8217;t the most satisfactory and any investment in it is going to take place over the longer term,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port workers at the northern Chilean port of Arica say they are concerned by developments in the concession at the southern Peruvian port of Ilo, where a Bolivian company could potentially become the new concessionaire.<\/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":[56],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9843","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=9843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9843"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}