Management of the Tema Fishing Harbour has held its last quarter stakeholder meeting for 2018 to look at progress made in the year and challenges that can be resolved for a better future. The 4th quarter meeting was used to discuss progress made during the year 2018 at the fishing harbour especially with regards to...
The International Customs Day has been celebrated in Accra, Ghana where custom officials as well as allied security agencies assembled to review the role of Customs in the swift and smooth cross-border movement of goods and people. The Commissioner General of Ghana Revenue Authority, Emmanuel Kofi Nti, described the role of Customs as pivotal in...
Representatives of the private sector of Ghana have held a roundtable discussion on enhancing the trade and business environment in Ghana. The forum brought together participants from organised private associations, think tanks, academia and advocacy groups, to take stock of the recent successes and ongoing challenges in creating a conducive trade and business environment in...
The Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has given the strongest indication that the disinfection of containers at the various ports and points of entry and exit in the country would commence in the 3rd week of February 2019. Last year, the policy, which was aimed at fumigating all imported cargo upon arrival at the ports...
Ahead of the construction of Keta Port by the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority in collaboration with Diamond Cement, the traditional authorities of Kedzi, in the Keta District of the Volta Region, where the Port is expected to be situated, have embraced the economic opportunity that is coming to their region by celebrating the project...
A training program has been organized by the Centre for Maritime Training and Development Foundation for Younger Women at Spintex, a suburb of Accra, with the aim of equipping those who aspire to be in the maritime industry with the needed self-development and personal branding skills. At the event a panel discussed the shipping industry’s...
The Tema Port Security has apprehended two Ghanaians who allegedly boarded a ship called Maritime Voyage in an attempt to stowaway to Spain. The stowaways who gave their names as Kofi Noun, 19yrs and Charles Eshun 20y say they are fishermen from Takoradi and boarded the vessel from anchorage of the Takoradi Port at 2am...
