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06 Feb

Container Pile-Up At Tema Port Drops By 21.7% After Customs’ Intervention

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The Acting Head of the Ghana Customs Laboratory, Samuel Akrofi, has said the Customs Division of Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has successfully reduced the number of uncleared containers at the Tema Port from 4,600 to 3,600, marking a 21.7 percent drop within ten days. According to him, the pile-up, which started in July 2024 due to scanner breakdowns, had been slowing down trade and increasing congestion at the port. “The breakdown of scanning equipment led to delays in processing cargo. By December, the number of containers at the Meridian Port Services (MPS) had risen to 4,600. The situation was getting out of…

15 Apr

Ghana Faces Competition From Lome Port As Tema Port Traffic Declines

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The Importers and Exporters Association of Ghana has raised concerns over the country’s loss of port traffic from the Tema Port to the Lomé Port in Togo. While Tema Port’s traffic has increased, it has not been growing as rapidly as Lomé’s Port, which has seen a significant increase from 300,000 thousand containers per annum in the early 2000s to 1.5 million containers today. In comparison, Ghana’s Tema Port has grown from a similar level in the early 2000s to 1.2 million containers currently. Dr George vanDyck, the lead researcher on governance, port clusters, and competitiveness within the Tema Ports…

06 Oct

We’re Hopeful Of Securing IMF Programme Before End Of 2022 – Ofori-Atta

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The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, is optimistic the country will get approval from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for an economic programme before the end of 2022. According to him, a team of government officials will from this weekend travel to Washington, DC in USA for two weeks to continue negotiations with the Fund to fast-track the deal. He was speaking to the media after paying a visit to the ‘Long Room’ at the Tema Port in the Greater Accra region. He stated that discussions have so far been fruitful and cordial with the IMF mission team, here in Ghana.…

14 Sep

Tema Mpekadan Railways Project 95% Complete – Amewu

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Contractors working on the over 90 kilometers railway project from the Tema Port to Mpekadan near Akosombo in the Eastern region have disclosed that work is 95% complete and on schedule to be handed over to government by the end of the year. This when completed will witness some significant reduction on road traffic from Tema to parts of the Volta and Eastern region as well as elevating economic activities in the regions. Minister for Railways Development, John Peter Amewu who visited the site recently told Joy Business that talks are ongoing to transform the ending point of the railway…