{"id":562,"date":"2016-07-31T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/07\/31\/5-things-to-know-about-port-of-houston-sale-of-bayport-terminal\/"},"modified":"2016-07-31T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T22:02:00","slug":"5-things-to-know-about-port-of-houston-sale-of-bayport-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/5-things-to-know-about-port-of-houston-sale-of-bayport-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Things to Know about Port of Houston Sale of Bayport Terminal."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Houston&#8217;s foray into the cruise ship industry included the\u00a0Bayport Cruise Terminal, a $108 million project<\/li>\n<li>Critics of the Bayport Cruise Terminal called it a &#8220;boondoggle&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Other critics said the problem was the industrial environment is not the scenery for a cruise ship terminal<\/li>\n<li>In 2012, the Port approved\u00a0$6.7 million in incentives to Norwegian Cruise Line and Princess Cruises<\/li>\n<li>The numbers couldn&#8217;t compete with Galveston&#8217;s cruise data:\n<ul>\n<li>In 2016 Galveston will board\u00a0870,000<\/li>\n<li>Generates\u00a0$56 million in onshore passanger spending<\/li>\n<li>Generates $18.1 million in port services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/business\/article\/With-cruise-ships-gone-Port-of-Houston-decides-8425454.php\">Houston Chronicle |\u00a0With cruise ships gone, Port of Houston decides to move on at Bayport<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Houston&#8217;s foray into the cruise ship industry included the\u00a0Bayport Cruise Terminal, a $108 million project<\/li>\n<li>Critics of the Bayport Cruise Terminal called it a &#8220;boondoggle&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Other critics said the problem was the industrial environment is not the scenery for a cruise ship terminal<\/li>\n<li>In 2012, the Port approved\u00a0$6.7 million in incentives to Norwegian Cruise Line and Princess Cruises<\/li>\n<li>The numbers couldn&#8217;t compete with Galveston&#8217;s cruise data:\n<ul>\n<li>In 2016 Galveston will&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-government","category-ports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}