The Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority has, since 2004, complied with and committed itself to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL) by establishing the provision of Port Reception Facilities and Services through concessionary arrangements with private sector operators.
This arrangement ensures that ships calling Ghana’s...
Ghana Link Network Services has publicly disagreed with accusations by the Importers and Exporters Association of Ghana that its customer service is poor.
Indeed, the IT solutions company, providing an end-to-end customs management tool at the various ports and frontiers across Ghana, said customer service is one component of the...
A Trade Practitioner and AfCFTA expert, Louis Yaw Afful, has called on start-ups in commodity trading and agribusiness to look into and take up the opportunity a recent 2-billion-dollar credit facility presents.
This comes on the back of reports that the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat, Afreximbank and World...
Almost two years since the January 2021 takeoff of the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement, not much trade has taken place despite continued optimism surrounding the agreement which has the potential to rake in some US$3trillion.
It is reported that in Ghana, only two shipments have been successfully completed since...
In recent months, several regions of the world have experienced extreme weather conditions; this ranges from floods in China, Europe and India to smoke from wildfires in Serbia that reached the North Pole for the first time in history. Similarly, in Greece and Turkey, the impact of wildfire has...
Golden Star Oil Palm Plantation (GSOPP), the award-winning alternative livelihood project of Golden Star resources, now a member of the Chifeng Gold Group, has chalked a remarkable feat by completing processes, trainings and audits for its smallholder farmers to become certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).
The...
Dettol Ghana manufactured by Reckitt, has been endorsed by the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) as the hygiene product of choice to promote good hygiene for expectant, nursing mothers and Ghanaians at large.
The two organisations signed a memorandum of understanding to formalize the partnership.
The GRNMA is a...
Inlaks and Temenos have reimplemented the Temenos Transact R21 for National Investment Bank (NIB) Ghana in a bid to enhance digital growth.
The Temenos Transact is a core banking system that allows banks to scale up using cloud platforms and infrastructure to offer personalised customer products for efficiency. The platform...
It’s no secret that Africa suffers from incredibly high levels of economic inequality, with South Africa taking the top spot on a global level. In terms of wealth inequality, seven in ten of the world’s most unequal countries are located in Africa.
Moreover, Marie Francoise Marie-Nelly, World Bank Country Director...
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Enterprises Agency (GEA) has called on Ghanaian Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) to ‘break through the odds’ and contribute massively to the country’s COVID-19 era recovery.
Speaking at the maiden Esther Ocloo Lecture on African Entrepreneurship last Friday in Sekondi, Western...