The Takoradi Branch Office of the Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA) held a sensitisation seminar for shippers in the Central Region on 27th May, 2022 at the Swedru Business Resource Centre.
The forum was organised in collaboration with the Business Resource Centre at Swedru, a key agency of the Ministry of Trade and Industry that supports Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) across the country.
The Takoradi Branch Manager of the GSA, Mrs. Agnes Asamoah-Duku, emphasised the need for shippers to be continually appraised with new developments in the shipping and logistics industry. She underscored the commitment of the authority in ensuring that shippers in Ghana remained competitive in their trade – both locally and internationally.
The sensitisation forum forms part of the second quarter activities of the Takoradi Branch Office of the GSA, aimed at equipping shippers with the requisite tools to promote their activities and ensure trade compliance in Ghana.
The seminar featured presentations from resource persons on the topics: ‘The International Commercial Terms (INCOTERMS 2020) and the Revised Prohibition Regulations on the Manufacture, Sale or Importation of Sub-standard Electronic Appliances’.
Speaking on the INCOTERMS 2020, a member of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers who doubles as a Lecturer at the Regional Maritime University, Mrs. Gertrude Ohene-Asienim, took participants through the main changes in the new INCOTERMS 2020 and their effective application.
On the Revised Prohibition Regulations on the Manufacture, Sale or Importation of Sub-standard Electronic Appliances, a Senior Programmes Officer in charge of Energy Efficiency, Inspection & Enforcement at the Energy Commission, Mr. Hubert Zan, sensitised shippers on the new regulations and sanction regimes for non-compliance to ensure that shippers and manufacturers of electrical appliances are trade compliant.
