{"id":1371,"date":"2019-08-04T14:48:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T13:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2019-08-04T14:48:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T13:48:06","slug":"namibia-inaugurates-new-port-terminal-as-nigeria-struggles-with-old-sinking-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/04\/namibia-inaugurates-new-port-terminal-as-nigeria-struggles-with-old-sinking-ports\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia inaugurates new port terminal, As Nigeria Struggles with Old Sinking Ports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Hauwa Mustapha<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Namibian President, Hage Geingob has inaugurated a new $200 million dollars\u2019 port terminal at Walvis Bay, an extension that will double the country\u2019s port capacity from 350,000 containers to 750,000 per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The inauguration ceremony was held on the 40-hectare platform reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNamibia has now joined countries such as Australia, Brazil, Dubai and the Netherlands in the utilisation of reclaimed land for port expansion,\u201d said Geingob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Namport director, Nangula Hamunyela said the terminal not only increases Namport\u2019s assets to N$7,6 billion dollars, but also launches the company\u2019s goal to become a logistics hub for the southern African region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Namibia has now joined countries such as Australia, Brazil, Dubai and the Netherlands in the utilisation of reclaimed land for port expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThus the completion of the container terminal expansion puts us on a firm trajectory towards realising our dream of transforming Namibia into an international logistics hub,\u201d Geingob added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibian President, Hage Geingob has inaugurated a new $200 million dollars\u2019 port terminal at Walvis Bay, an extension that will double the country\u2019s port capacity from 350,000 containers to 750,000 per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,127,173,4],"tags":[327,328,161],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-maritime","category-news-feature","category-portnews","tag-namibia","tag-nigerian","tag-ports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}