Ghana’s Ambassador-designate to Italy, Merene Benyah, has met with businesses in Palermo, Sicily, in an effort to attract trade and investment to Ghana.
During the visit to the southern Italian city as part of a consular outreach programme, Ms. Merene Benyah toured a packaging company, Salerno Packaging (SP). The ultra-modern...
Deputy Chief Executive Officer for the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA), Albert Kassim Diwura, has encouraged exporters in the country to collaborate among themselves to reach bigger markets like the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
He explained that with changing trends on the global market, businesses in the country...
German trade show specialists, agrofood & plastprintpack West Africa, will from November 29 - December 1, 2022, organise the 7th edition agrofood West Africa in Ghana.
The 2022 agrofood trade fair conference, the 7th edition of the fair, will come off at the Grand Arena of the Accra International Conference...
….as the seven ready countries set the ball rolling
The Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) secretariat has adopted a special instrument described as the Guided Trade Initiative (GTI), which has set the ball rolling for commercial trading to commence for the first seven countries to have met all requirements...
The Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) has expressed its commitment to meeting the ambitious US$4.2billion revenue target for non-traditional export (NTE) commodities set for the year 2022, as it engages producers and exporters to build their capacity for exports under the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
The country's NTE...
The 2022 Afreximbank Trade Finance Seminar (ATFS2022) and Factoring Workshop has opened in Kampala, Uganda.
The three-day programme of presentations, panel discussions, interactive sessions and workshops will focus on managing the challenges of trade finance in the context of increased global economic uncertainty and opportunities offered by the African Continental...
On the 1st of January, the AfCFTA Secretariat formally started trading under the AfCFTA agreement. Since then, the Secretariat and State Parties have been working to put in place structures, procedures, processes, protocols, and documentations needed to enable the commencement of commercially viable trade amongst State Parties.
On the 7th...
The Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA) has encouraged Women in Cross Border Trade who are yet to register with the Authority’s Regional Shipper Committees to do so.
The move is to enable the GSA gather enough data on their operations and develop programmes and policies to support their efforts geared toward...
The Development Bank Ghana and the Netherlands Embassy are seeking to build a long-term partnership based on mutual objectives and interests.
This comes at a time when the Embassy is developing a new strategy for relations between the Netherlands and Ghana, and the Embassy’s role.
In an interview with the B&FT following...
Trade practitioner, advocate and pundit, Ziad Hamoui has acknowledged the difficulty associated with finding an effective balance between trade facilitation and security.
However, he has urged state authorities and stakeholders within the trade sector of West African countries to enhance efforts such as risk profiling, and cross-national, cross-sector collaborations which...