{"id":305882,"date":"2026-10-13T17:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305882\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T17:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:42:12","slug":"gov-josh-shapiro-to-announce-major-investment-plan-to-expand-the-port-of-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305882\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Josh Shapiro to announce major investment plan to expand the Port of Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced plans to expand the Port of Philadelphia Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro and PennDOT officials were in South Philadelphia outlining plans that they say will expand PhilaPort to help the state grow as a global trade leader.<\/p>\n<p>Back in April, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/philaport-cruise-terminal-philadelphia-opens\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Philadelphia became a cruise port again<\/a> after a 15-year hiatus. Leaders estimate that the cruise port could generate $300 million in annual economic output for Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, the Shapiro administration said it sees PhilaPort as a vital economic engine for the Commonwealth and that it will create thousands of jobs statewide.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced plans to expand the Port of Philadelphia Tuesday morning. Shapiro and PennDOT officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33,3431,28,30,29,69],"class_list":["post-305882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-penndot","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}