The Driver and Vehicle Licencing Authority (DVLA), in collaboration with the Motor, Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service, has embarked on a special operation to clamp down on vehicles with fake or embellished number-plates, vehicles with tinted glasses among others, in Accra.
The operation is part...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) called on governments to take action to address the high cost of COVID-19 tests in many jurisdictions and urged flexibility in permitting the use of cost-effective antigen tests as an alternative to more expensive PCR tests.
IATA also recommended governments adopt recent World Health Organization...
19.447 billion metric tonnes and 353.8 million TEU (twenty-foot Equivalent Unit).
From January 2020 to April 2021, the volume of cargo that have been through Chinese ports was almost 19.5 billion tonnes. Within the same period, the container throughput stands at over 350 million 20FT container equivalent units.
Since the pandemic, China has been recovering faster...
...Akufo-Addo says plant to reduce US$1.5bn car import bill
Toyota Tsusho Corporation (Toyota Tsusho Manufacturing Ghana ), the company which controls Toyota sales and marketing in Africa, has opened a 1,300 unit vehicle per year assembling plant in Accra.
The US$7 million plant, the first by a Japanese firm in the...
The Minister of Transport, Kweku Ofori Asiamah has said that government is very aware of the benefit of an updated hygrograph data and is committed to channelling more investment to enhance the nation’s blue economy.
Hydrography is the branch of applied sciences which deals with the measurement and description of the...
Experts at the Africa Sureties and Insurance Advisory Company (ASIAC) have said that insurers may not honour claims when vehicles other than bullion-vans or armored vehicles have been used to transport monies from one location to another, since that amounts to a violation of terms and conditions of the...
The tech space is predominantly a male-dominated one with women increasingly finding opportunities hard to come by.
According to Adeva IT, as of 2018, women held only 25% of all the jobs in the tech industry, despite women making up almost half of the total workforce.
As part of efforts to...
The European Union has provided a grant of €35million to government for the rehabilitation and maintenance of 670km of feeder and farm access roads in the Upper West Region.
This support aims at improving inter-connectivity between areas of production and market centres.
To mark the start work, a ground-breaking ceremony has...
Pressure mounts on gov’t to further reduce fuel price
Calls for restructuring of tax build-up intensifies
With the increasing cost of living and consistent dwindling of consumers’ purchasing power, incomes of many citizens can only buy less of their usual consumption basket - a situation of the poor getting...
The National Insurance Commission (NIC) says, it will continue to flash out individuals who fix fake motor insurance stickers on their vehicles until the act is stopped.
To safeguard the effectiveness of this, the NIC and Motor Transport and Traffic Directorate (MTTD) Unit of the Ghana Police Service has embarked...