{"id":191326,"date":"2025-02-13T18:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-walvis-bay-waterfront-and-marina-on-hold-due-to-inadequate-land\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T18:00:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T16:00:37","slug":"namibia-walvis-bay-waterfront-and-marina-on-hold-due-to-inadequate-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-walvis-bay-waterfront-and-marina-on-hold-due-to-inadequate-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Walvis Bay Waterfront and Marina On Hold Due to Inadequate Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Namport Chief Executive, Andrew Kanime said plans to construct the Walvis Bay Waterfront and Marina have been put on hold because of the ongoing development of the new oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Approximately seven hectares of prime land have been allocated for the waterfront development, along with a sizable adjacent calm water area between the Walvis Bay lagoon and the Port of Walvis Bay South Port.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Kanime said Namport does not have enough land to proceed with the development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">&#8220;We have had to put the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502130280.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namport Chief Executive, Andrew Kanime said plans to construct the Walvis Bay Waterfront and Marina have been put on hold because of the ongoing development of the new oil and gas industry. Approximately seven hectares of prime land have been allocated for the waterfront development, along with a sizable adjacent calm water area between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":191327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,8611,6605,7204,7195,6122,18231,4706,724,257,254,10438,23309],"class_list":["post-191326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bay","tag-due","tag-hold","tag-inadequate","tag-land","tag-marina","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-walvis","tag-waterfront"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}