{"id":23747,"date":"2012-07-17T09:26:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T13:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=23747"},"modified":"2012-07-17T09:26:54","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T13:26:54","slug":"acl-shipping-terminates-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/07\/acl-shipping-terminates-operations","title":{"rendered":"ACL Shipping Terminates Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23748\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23748\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23748\" title=\"acl-shipping\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/acl-shipping.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/acl-shipping.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/acl-shipping-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atlantic Caribbean Line (ACL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A major shipping company &#8211; Atlantic Caribbean Line (ACL) &#8211; which represents about 120 containers per week into the country, is ceasing operations in The Bahamas and the U.S.. The termination means a loss of jobs for at least 12 Bahamians in Nassau and Freeport.<\/p>\n<p>Garth Rolle, the Nassau Port Director for ACL said, &#8220;The position is the owners decided to pull out of the market. The last call was on Friday. So this is with immediate effect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ACL, founded in 1965, operates a fleet of five container ships. The Florida office has similar staff complement to The Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantic Caribbean Line (ACL) is ceasing operations &#8211; effective immediately &#8211; in The Bahamas and the U.S.. The termination means a loss of jobs for at least 12 Bahamians in Nassau and Freeport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[72,325,128],"class_list":["post-23747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-employment","tag-jobs","tag-shipping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}