‘Madman’ Sets Two Apartments Ablaze
Two apartments were Tuesday morning set ablaze in TaKoradi, Western region, by a man suspected to be mentally challenged. Mawul, who is in his early thirties, had jokingly announced his...
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5 Buzz Facts You Should Know
GCNET paperless transactions is a single-window platform designed for processing trade transactions and customs clearances. In order to facilitate international trade, the Akufo-Addo government has...
We Are Ready For Paperless Transactions – GCNet Executive Chairman
Government’s directive to port operators to achieve total paperless processing of operational clearance procedures at the ports from September 1 is close to being realised as the main technical...
Stakeholders Firm Up Commitment For Paperless Transactions At Ports
Stakeholders in the proposed paperless transactions at the nation’s entry points have firmed up their commitment to the September 1, 2017 date for take-off. Existing electronic platforms which...
Bawumia To Address Ghana’s 2017 Transport and Logistics Conference
The vice President, Dr. Alhaji Bawumia is billed to address the 2017 transport and logistics conference beginning Wednesday July 16 at the M. T Addico Conference Hall, Ghana Shippers House, Ridge,...
IMANI’s ‘Efficiency’ Report On Operations At Ghana’s Tema Sea Port
Ports all over the world assess their performance using set key indicators, and Ghanaian ports are not an exception to this practice. In fact, Ghana adopted the Uniform Systems of Port Statistics...
Strike By Tema Port Expansion Project Workers Illegal
The National Labour Commission (NLC) has declared as illegal, the strike action by the workers on the Tema Port Expansion Project. It has since ordered them to cease the action. In its ruling dated...
9-Member C’ttee Inaugurated For Port Infrastructure Development Fund
The acting Director General of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, Paul Asare Ansah, has inaugurated a nine-member committee to develop modalities for the Port Infrastructure Development Fund in...
GPHA Closes Down Unauthorised Jetty
The Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) has stopped works on a jetty and storage facility under construction in Tema to receive liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from vessels. It follows what...
GPHA Halts Construction of 3 Illegal Ports
The Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) has halted the construction of some illegal mini ports and jetties by some private companies along the country’s coast. GPHA disclosed that a private...
Transport Ministry Inaugurates GPHA Board
The Ministry of Transport, led by Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, Minister for Transport, has inaugurated an 11-member board of directors of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA). The members of the...
Ghana’s Sea & Air Ports To Go Paperless By September 2017
The Ghana Community Network Services Limited (GcNET) has expressed confidence in meeting government’s deadline to achieve 100 percent paperless transactions at the ports by September this year....
Reforms To Eliminate Bureaucratic Procedures In Trade Supply Chain
The stakes are high to improve trade among countries across the world and governments encouraged by the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) initiatives have introduced reforms to eliminate...
Ofori-Asante Likely To Be Appointed As CEO of Petroleum Commission
President Nana Akufo-Addo is yet to appoint someone to take over as Chief Executive Officer of Petroleum Commission, but insider sources have tipped Mr. Philip Ofori-Asante to be next in line. Mr....
Akufo-Addo Government Creating Mass Unemployment
The hope of a better life, the joy of living in a country with free flowing milk, honey and wine promised by Nana Akufo-Addo, if made President of Ghana, has become a mirage in many Ghanaian homes....
GPHA To Give Stiffer Punishment To Shippers With False Documents
Mr Paul Ansah, the Director-General of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, said the port would work towards data integrity and warned that shippers caught filing fictitious documents would suffer...
Dr. Bawumia’s Keynote Address At the Port Efficiency Conference
Keynote address delivered by His Excellency, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President of the Republic of Ghana on the occasion of the Port Efficiency Conference, held at Labadi Beach Hotel, Accra on May...
We’ll Reduce Long Clearing Hours At Ports
The Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has stressed that the government will undertake massive reforms at the country’s ports to improve the processes of doing business in Ghana. According to him,...
Blame Union Secretary For Problems At Tema Shipyard – Workers
The senior and junior staff workers union executives of the Tema Shipyard have blamed the General secretary of the Maritime and Dock Workers Union for the purported confusion at the company....
Blame Union Secretary For Problems At Tema Shipyard
The senior and junior staff workers union executives of the Tema Shipyard have blamed the General secretary of the Maritime and Dock Workers Union for the purported confusion at the company....