GPHA to boost port infrastructure to facilitate clearance of goods at Ghana’s ports
The Director-General of Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, Mr. Michael Luguje is assuring stakeholders in the Port industry of enhanced port infrastructure to facilitate easy and cost-efficient means of clearing goods at Ghana’s ports in this year 2021.
According to him, even though the year 2020 was a difficult one due to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the port community managed to sail through as a result of what he described as a “collective performance of all employees”.
Speaking in a New Year message to the staff of GPHA and the Port community, Mr. Luguje commended the staff for their tireless efforts in ensuring that the port sector thrived under the pandemic.
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Chido Pamela Mafongoya, Legal Intern
The long-awaited trading within the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) finally began on 1 January 2021, marking a very important milestone for African trade. The AfCFTA creates a single continental market for goods and services, with the aim of increasing intra-African trade by reducing tariffs by approximately 90 percent [1] and harmonising trading rules at a continental level. The AfCFTA has the potential to increase intra-African trade by 52.3% by 2022 [2].
The COVID-19 pandemic has inevitably delayed the implementation of the AfCFTA, in a time when harmonisation couldn’t be more important as the world clubs together to fight the novel Corona virus. Despite various regulations put in place by African governments to try and manage the spread of the disease, the pandemic continues spread across the continent. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) cases in the African region (which excludes Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, E
Chido Pamela Mafongoya, Legal Intern
The long-awaited trading within the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) finally began on 1 January 2021, marking a very important milestone for African trade. The AfCFTA creates a single continental market for goods and services, with the aim of increasing intra-African trade by reducing tariffs by approximately 90 percent [1] and harmonising trading rules at a continental level. The AfCFTA has the potential to increase intra-African trade by 52.3% by 2022 [2].
The COVID-19 pandemic has inevitably delayed the implementation of the AfCFTA, in a time when harmonisation couldn’t be more important as the world clubs together to fight the novel Corona virus. Despite various regulations put in place by African governments to try and manage the spread of the disease, the pandemic continues spread across the continent. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) cases in the African region (which excludes Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt,
Mutual mistrust there may have been, but economic activity between South Africa and the superpower remained robust. Now exports must diversify and create jobs
The re-appoinmement of the current Minister for Trade and Industry, Mr Alan John Kyerementen by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to the same portfolio for the second term has greeted with a massive congratulatory messages from many Ghanaians who are leaving in the country and abroad.
Scores of Ghanaians from the different political parties had gone to the social platforms, particularly the Facebook and Instagram to thank President Dankwa Akufo-Addo for his decision to re-appoint Mr Kyerementen as the minister-designate for Trade and Industry Ministry, describing Mr Kyerementen as a unifier, peacemaker and good listener.
They indicated that their congratulatory messages attested to the real fact that they have a total confidence in Mr Kyerementen and that he has what it takes to lead the ruling NPP when the next and final term of President Akufo-Addo ends.