The Ghana Police Service has been called on to as a matter of urgency eliminate the incidence of unnecessary police checks on transit truck drivers using the transit road corridor in order to facilitate transit and regional trade.
Transit cargo handled through Ghana’s ports in 2019 alone was one million,...
A Supervisor at the Vehicle Valuation Unit of the Customs Technical Services Bureau, Mr. Justice Njornan Magah Yadjayime has stated that import duty for all hybrid vehicles is currently pegged at 20 percent.
He attributed the seemingly high import duties for hybrid vehicles in the country to the ECOWAS Common...
Shipping costs soared over the past year as consumers unleashed pent-up savings to buy new merchandise while the pandemic continued to snarl the world’s supply chains. Container rates have more than quadrupled since the start of the pandemic, with some of the biggest gains concentrated in the first three...
Governments and industry players within Africa have once again been urged to collaborate towards investments into transport infrastructure to drive the continental free trade.
Mrs. Naa Densua Aryeetey, an Executive Member of the Governing Council of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), Ghana and Mr. Patrick Andoh, the...
The security situation in mining communities, and mining companies in particular, continues to be a major worry for the Ghana Mineworkers’ Union as the race for the sanitisation of illegal mining under the ‘Government Operation Halt Programme’ rages.
The programme has forced many of these displaced illegal miners into invading...
The Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA) has intensified its campaign on the payment of demurrage – fees charged for overstayed containers.
The campaign, dubbed: ‘Demurrage is Avoidable’, is to help shippers plan their operations to be able to clear their cargoes from the port in time and reduce their operational cost.
According...
Freight forwarders have been asked to work within the newly approved rates negotiated with the Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA) to enhance the professionalism in their service.
The new rates, which took effect on 1st January, 2023, are not only intended to guide importers and exporters to plan their operations, but...
The Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority is dedicated to giving its staff the skills they
need to succeed in the fiercely competitive and ever-evolving world of international trade.
This is why the authority continually invests in the UNCTAD Train for Trade Programme to prepare future management staff to understand emerging challenges...
The need to enhance the living conditions of Ghanaians living and working aboard fishing vessels has become even more pressing today.
Many Ghanaian fishers are said to be undertrained, underpaid, and living under near harsh working conditions on board the vessels they work on, making the trade increasingly unattractive.
The Ghana...
The Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority has introduced a Time Release Study aimed at assessing the average time goods in customs charge are cleared at the various ports and frontiers of Ghana. It is also intended to serve as a benchmark on which future studies will be...