{"id":268,"date":"2010-06-07T11:32:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T15:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/2010\/06\/07\/economic-development-director-keith-stokes-invest-in-rhode-islands-shipyards\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T14:33:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:33:23","slug":"economic-development-director-keith-stokes-invest-in-rhode-islands-shipyards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/2010\/06\/07\/economic-development-director-keith-stokes-invest-in-rhode-islands-shipyards\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Development Director Keith Stokes: Invest in Rhode Island&#8217;s Shipyards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a recent presentation to the members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newportchamber.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Newport County Chamber of Commerce<\/a>, Rhode Island Economic Development Director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riedc.com\/about\/team\/keith-stokes\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Stokes<\/a> noted the importance of investing in our state&#8217;s shipyards and ensuring that local zoning supports these businesses.  As reported in the Spring 2010 edition of the Newport County Chamber&#8217;s Business Journal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Over recent decades, much of the commercial shipbuilding and other marine trade activity has been lost in Rhode Island. <strong>To grow the Ocean State&#8217;s marine industry, Stokes advocates that we invest in the remaining three large shipyards in Providence Harbor, Quonset Bay and Portsmouth&#8217;s Melville area where mega &#8211; yachts are currently fitted out and serviced. We also need to ensure local zoning continues to support this type of business activity.<\/strong>  Stokes advocated for Quonset&#8217;s port utilization as a Short Sea Destination.  Large container ships can offload in Newark, New York, or Boston.  Trains and\/or small container ships would bring goods to Rhode Island port saving shippers significantly versus using traditional 18-wheeler trucking.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a recent presentation to the members of the Newport County Chamber of Commerce, Rhode Island Economic Development Director Keith Stokes noted the importance of investing in our state&#8217;s shipyards and ensuring that local zoning supports these businesses. As reported in the Spring 2010 edition of the Newport County Chamber&#8217;s Business Journal: Over recent decades, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}