DP World is looking for new investment and expansion opportunities across Africa, as it pushes ahead with its long-term strategy focusing on the continent, the company's Senior Vice President and Managing Director for the UAE Mohammed Al Muallem told delegates at the fourth Global Business Forum on Africa in...
The Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority has waged a war against clearing agents and unscrupulous individuals who clone and inflate GPHA invoices to defraud importers.
The vigilance of the Port Security has led to the arrest of four alleged fraudulent clearing agents who inflated GPHA invoices in order to extort...
The Tema Shipyard has taken delivery of a state of the art 45tons mobile crane as well as two cherry pickers as part of GPHA's plans to help revive the dilapidated dry dock company to enhance efficient and effective work delivery in the dry dock yard.
Captain Francis Kwesi Micah,...
Government agencies and private organisations responsible for trade in Niger have called on Ghana to rescue the landlocked nation from what they describe as over-taxation, intimidation, harassment and unfair treatment at the hands of port operators in neighbouring francophone countries.
Speaking in Niamey during a Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority...
Cargo traffic to the country’s two seaports has been tipped to continue along the present steady growth line, with an expected surge of 10 percent by year-end according to projections by the Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA).
The projections, the authority said, are based on the positive trend of the country’s...
Customs officers have re-adopted the manual process of releasing goods to freight forwarders and clearing agents at the country’s busiest sea port, the Tema Port.
This is to ease the tension at Tema Port as a result of clearing agents’ inability to clear goods electronically through the new Integrated Customs...
Ghana Community Network Service Limited (GCNet) is set to shut down its operations at the nation’s ports to finally give way for UNIPASS, now Integrated Customs Management Systems (ICUMS) to takeover single window operations at the port.
In a series of letters written to the existing vendors and various port...
Government, acting through the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has signed a service contract with LCB Worldwide - a crisis management and prevention firm - to disinfect all imports at the country’s entry points, effective January 2018.
Tunnel-like scanners will be installed at the ports, where trucks carting imported cargo will...
A total of 184 graduates of the Ghana Institute of Freight Forwarders (GIFF) have been awarded diplomas and certificates after successfully completing their various areas of study at the seventh graduation ceremony of the institute, held over the weekend in Tema.
About 106 students received diplomas while the remaining 78...
Hapag-LIoyd, a leading liner shipping company with over 12,500 employees and 360 offices in 125 countries is determined to increase its market share of 10%. This growth will be primarily driven by the trade in gold, oil and gas products.
Mr. Anthony Firmin, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Hapag-LIoyd at...
