By Evelyn ARTHUR
The deputy Minister of Transport, Fredrick Obeng-Adom has emphasised the importance of utilizing the nation's water bodies in ways that support economic development and environmental sustainability.
The deputy Minister was speaking at the 2024 shipping conference organised by the Ghana Chamber of Shipping in Accra.
“The maritime sector...
By Evelyn ARTHUR
The Director General of Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, Michael Achagwe Luguje, has reiterated the Authority’s commitment in offering port facilities and ensuring that cargo and ships are handled in the most effective and efficient manner.
Mr. Luguje gave the assurance when a delegation from the Burkina Faso...
The Importers & Exporters Association of Ghana (IEAG) has described calls from some players in the commercial shipping industry for President Nana Akufo-Addo to halt his assent to the Ghana Shippers’ Authority Law 2024 as unfounded.
According to the Association's President, Sampson Asaki Awingobit, the law in its current form...
By Buertey Francis BORYOR
Vice Chairman-Ghana Chamber of Shipping (GCS) Capt. Aaron Turkson has called for increased local private sector participation in the maritime industry, to ensure productivity and national economic development.
According to him, by involving local private sector players the maritime industry can tap into their expertise, resources and...
Key stakeholders within Ghana’s International Business Community have thrown their weight behind the Ghana Shippers’ Authority following the announcement of the amendment of the fifty year old Shippers Act.
Parliament passed the Ghana Shippers’ Authority Bill, 2024 into law on Monday, July 29, following its successful third reading on the...
Many Ghanaians are said to be driving around town in vehicles that haven’t undergone proper customs processes and in effect have eluded the payment of import duties owed to the state.
Some of these vehicles are said to have come through unapproved border routes while others have overstayed their permitted...
A group of employees of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority at the Mechanical Engineering Department has successfully completed a five day course on Automotive Diagnostic Systems to refine their know-how in the ever-evolving automotive sector.
This has come in at a timely moment when the Authority has in recent...
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA), Kwesi Baffour Sarpong has underscored the transformative potential of the newly amended Ghana Shippers’ Authority Law for Ghana’s commercial shipping sector.
Speaking at a pivotal stakeholder meeting initiated by the Ghana Institute of Freight Forwarders (GIFF), which brought together key...