The Minister of Transport, Kwaku Ofori Asiamah has announced his outfit is engaging more private organizations to develop the maritime industry to accelerate economic development and job creation. Speaking at the Meet the Press series in Accra, the Transport Minister declared that out of the three container berths under construction as part of the Tema […]
The Trades Union Congress is appealing to President Nana Akufo-Addo to intervene, as a matter of urgency, to ensure that the contract between Ghana government and Meridian Port Services (MPS) is reviewed. The TUC estimates that the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) alone may sack about 1,400 workers in 2019 as a result of […]
In recent years, studies have shown that gas emitted from shipping related activities are on a steady increase globally and developing countries lack the capacity to develop energy efficient mechanisms to improve on gas emissions in the shipping industry. It is in this vain that the International Maritime Organisation, IMO, the UN body responsible for […]
The Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority has gone to the aid of the Pong-Tamale Senior High school (PONTASS) by alleviating the acute water shortage problem that has bedevilled the school for a long time. GPHA and its local partner, Community Legacy Initiative Project (CLIP), determined to solve the problem, donated water storage facilities and waste […]
The Commissioner of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority, Isaac Crentsil, has expressed optimism that the division will achieve its revenue target of 17 Billion Ghana cedis for the state in the year 2019. The Commissioner of Customs who was speaking during the Passing Out Ceremony of 300 NABCO interns attached to the […]
The Tema Senior Staff Union of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority has donated essentials including a microwave oven, educational materials, clothing, toiletries and food items to Becky’s Foundation, an orphanage in Senya Beraku area in the Central Region. The Union collaborated with Global Streets Foundation, who aided in identifying the right place to carry […]
BestNewsGH.com can report authoritatively that the Director-General of the Ghana Maritime Authority, Kwame Owusu has retired from office. He left office on the Friday, February 15 2019 and bade all the staff of the Authority farewell. BestNewsGH.com can also confirm that Mr. Kwame Owusu has written to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and informed him […]
Some stakeholders in the country’s port sector have backed the decision by West Blue Ghana Limited, an IT solutions firm, to seek redress at the court for the alleged plagiarisation of the national single window software by Ghana Link and three others. According to them, the decision of West Blue to allow the court to […]
The International Customs Day has been celebrated in Accra, Ghana where custom officials as well as allied security agencies assembled to review the role of Customs in the swift and smooth cross-border movement of goods and people. The Commissioner General of Ghana Revenue Authority, Emmanuel Kofi Nti, described the role of Customs as pivotal in […]
Ahead of the construction of Keta Port by the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority in collaboration with Diamond Cement, the traditional authorities of Kedzi, in the Keta District of the Volta Region, where the Port is expected to be situated, have embraced the economic opportunity that is coming to their region by celebrating the project […]
A training program has been organized by the Centre for Maritime Training and Development Foundation for Younger Women at Spintex, a suburb of Accra, with the aim of equipping those who aspire to be in the maritime industry with the needed self-development and personal branding skills. At the event a panel discussed the shipping industry’s […]
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has served notice that it will reduce the number of freight forwarders in the country in efforts to sanitize the industry. The Commissioner General of the Authority, Emmanuel Kofi Nti speaking at a press soiree in Accra Thursday, January 31, 2019 explained that there is a lot of impunity in […]
