{"id":8291,"date":"2015-10-19T10:51:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T15:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/?p=5362"},"modified":"2023-03-03T14:37:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T20:37:42","slug":"great-laker-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/2015\/10\/19\/great-laker-ports\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Laker: The 5 Keys to Strategic Port Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent issue of the <em>Great Laker<\/em>\u00a0published an article by MAFC Program Manager Ernie Perry that was based on the results of Phase 1 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wistrans.org\/cfire\/research\/projects\/09-02\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wisconsin Commercial Port Development Initiative<\/a>\u00a0(WCPDI) conducted by Perry and a CFIRE research team. This article outlined the five key elements for strategic port planning:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Get everyone on board.<\/li>\n<li>Consider port and marine freight development as a part of a larger system.<\/li>\n<li>Align your efforts with regional, national, and international work.<\/li>\n<li>Planning is imperative and will help build the human and agency capital needed to support port development and increased awareness of the capabilities and opportunities at the ports.<\/li>\n<li>The WCPDI is a strategic process and will require ongoing support from marine freight advocates.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harborhouse.com\/digital\/seawayreview44-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">entire article<\/a>\u00a0(page 54-55).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent issue of the Great Laker\u00a0published an article by MAFC Program Manager Ernie Perry that was based on the results of Phase 1 of the Wisconsin Commercial Port Development Initiative\u00a0(WCPDI) conducted by Perry and a CFIRE research team. This article outlined the five key elements for strategic port planning: Get everyone on board. Consider [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10138,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8291\/revisions\/10138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}