{"id":5284,"date":"2014-09-18T16:51:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T09:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5284"},"modified":"2014-09-18T16:51:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T09:51:50","slug":"namibia-to-start-sooner-on-new-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-to-start-sooner-on-new-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia to start sooner on new port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINDHOEK\/GABORONE &#8211; Work on a new port in Namibia to export commodities and import fuel for southern African states will start next year, a year earlier than initially planned, the country\u2019s port authority said.<\/p>\n<p>A 4-billion Namibian dollar ($360m) oil-tanker jetty, petroleum pipelines and 75-million litre oil storage facility form part of the first phase, Namibia Ports Authority CEO Bisey Uirab said in an e-mailed response to questions.<\/p>\n<p>The harbour, known as the Southern Africa Development Community Gateway port, will be built 5km north of Walvis Bay&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Namibia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bdlive.co.za\/africa\/africanbusiness\/2014\/09\/18\/namibia-to-start-sooner-on-new-port\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINDHOEK\/GABORONE &#8211; Work on a new port in Namibia to export commodities and import fuel for southern African states will start next year, a year earlier than initially planned, the country\u2019s port authority said. A 4-billion Namibian dollar ($360m) oil-tanker jetty, petroleum pipelines and 75-million litre oil storage facility form part of the first phase, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,4123,4117,4118,4706,724,4122,4116,257,4121,4119,4120,254,4693,4124,4125],"class_list":["post-5284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bisey-uirab","tag-export-commodities","tag-import-fuel-for-southern-african-states","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibia-ports-authority","tag-new-port-in-namibia","tag-news","tag-oil-storage-facility","tag-oil-tanker-jetty","tag-petroleum-pipelines","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-southern-africa-development-community-gateway-port","tag-walvis-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}