{"id":767024,"date":"2026-06-28T15:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T15:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/767024\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T15:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T15:51:10","slug":"placentia-mayor-welcomes-major-ferry-terminal-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/767024\/","title":{"rendered":"Placentia Mayor Welcomes Major Ferry Terminal Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/port-of-argentia-placentia-port-authority-sign.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Placentia Mayor Welcomes Major Ferry Terminal Funding\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The mayor of Placentia says the potential for economic growth and development is \u201cendless\u201d following news of some major upgrades coming to the Marine Atlantic ferry terminal in Argentia.<\/p>\n<p>There are several projects planned with the $270-million from Ottawa, one of the most significant of which being dock upgrades in Argentia that will bring it up to the same standard as Port aux Basques.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Jamie Neville believes the \u201cfuture is very bright\u201d for the area.<\/p>\n<p>He says when the dock upgrades are complete, Argentia will be able to handle every ship in Marine Atlantic\u2019s fleet, which will increase access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (VOCM News) The mayor of Placentia says the potential for economic growth and development is \u201cendless\u201d following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-767024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}