{"id":9988,"date":"2009-11-18T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T10:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2009\/11\/18\/efip-welcomes-the-port-of-ghent\/"},"modified":"2009-11-18T10:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T10:42:00","slug":"efip-welcomes-the-port-of-ghent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe\/efip-welcomes-the-port-of-ghent\/","title":{"rendered":"EFIP welcomes the Port of Ghent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a very important signal for the further development of the Seine Scheldt project and proves the interest of Ghent for its hinterland. At the same time, if Ghent wants to develop its inland waterway activities, it will have the opportunity within EFIP to be updated of policy developments and to exchange best practices with other inland ports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CEO of the port of Ghent, Daan Schalck commented: \u201cThe upcoming Seine-Nord project, offers plenty of opportunities for the port of Ghent. Being an intermodal nodal point, Ghent has very good hinterland links via IWT, rail, pipelines and road. With a 20 million throughput by IWT, Ghent is an important inland port. Promoting sustainable transport is one of Ghent\u2019s main goals and another reason to join EFIP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EFIP\u2019s Director Isabelle Ryckbost added: \u201cI am happy to welcome the port of Ghent to EFIP. The forthcoming Seine Scheldt connection will give the seaport of Ghent an inland navigation express link with Paris and will as such boost its growth potential in inland navigation. Ghent will be one of the main access points to the Seine-Scheldt connection. Moreover EFIP and its members will be able to use Ghent\u2019s expertise when it comes to integrating the port into the town. A subject EFIP wants to work on during the coming year\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portofghent.be\/\"><strong><em>www.portofghent.be<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Federation of Inland Ports (EFIP) welcomed the port of Ghent as a new member at its Annual General Assembly in Mantova, Italy, in October 2009. Willy Robijns, EFIP President stated: \u201cThis membership can be considered as a real asset for EFIP.<\/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":[15,34],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-europe-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988","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=9988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9988"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}