The award-winning loyalty programme is one of the first in the world, and first in the region, to offer its members an extension on all tier status reviews scheduled for 2021 by an additional 12 months.
Emirates Skywards, the award-winning loyalty programme of Emirates and flydubai, has rolled out...
Due to the recent spike in COVID-19 numbers, the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) might be backtracking on its projections for 2021 as the authority has taken a cautiously optimistic posture towards cargo volumes expected for this year.
The GPHA was anticipating a 10 percent increase in volumes achieved...
Despite the ravaging effects of COVID-19 on the aviation industry, Emirates will continue to play an important role in ensuring that the sector bounces back strongly, Badr Abbas, Senior Vice President Commercial Operations-Africa, has said.
2020 was a year unlike any other. While the whole world was in lockdown, Emirates...
Chief Executive Officer of Consolidated Shipping Agencies Limited (Conship) - an indigenous freight forwarding, oil and gas services and ship agency - MacDonald Vasnani is making a strong case for government to reserve the freight forwarding and clearing business solely for locals.
According to Mr. Vasnani, local companies have the capacity...
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) will commence strict implementation of the registration of all regulated products prior to importation, effective February 1, 2021 at the Tema Port.
Deputy Chief Executive Officer in charge of Food, Roderick Daddey-Adjei, said the authority will not allow the importation and clearance of unregistered...
The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) has agreed to maintain its old fees for the registration of importers.
This agreement was reached after a consensus-building meeting jointly organised by the National Standards Body and the Ghana Shippers’ Authority on Thursday, January 14, 2012, for industry players such as importers and exporters,...
The world's airlines need another US$70-$80bn of government support to get through the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
That's according to the head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), which is the trade association for the world's airlines.
Director-General Alexandre de Juniac told the BBC that sum was "on...
Pointing overhead to the imposing structure of concrete pillars and tiered, swirling highways, 63-year-old Ayorkor Baka, like many others, welcomes the new interchange, saying it will cut pedestrian fatalities on the road linking Accra and Nsawam.
The bridge, the first of its kind in West Africa, is a crucial link...
Japan Motors Trading Company Limited (JMTC) has donated its first locally assembled Nissan Pickup to the College of Engineering of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).
Nissan has opened a vehicle assembly plant in Ghana with its longtime partner, Japan Motors Trading Company Ltd. appointed as its...
More than 100 years ago, Lord Luggard said that "Africa 's problems can be summarized in terms of transport," and 100 years later, transport, especially urban transport, remains one of Africa's biggest problems.
The railway sector had not seen any major improvement since its creation by the colonial government in...