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=== Postwar years ===

Greenock thrived in the post-war years but as the heavy industries declined in the 1970s and 1980s unemployment became a major problem, and it has only been in the last ten years with reinvestment and the redevelopment of large sections of the town that the local economy has started to revive. Tourism has appeared as an unexpected bonus with the development of the Clydeport [[container port]] as Ocean Terminal, a [[passenger terminal (maritime)|passenger terminal]] for [[cruise ship]]s touring the Atlantic. Students who do not travel further afield for study often attend the Greenock campus of West College (formerly known as [[James Watt College]] of Further and Higher Education).