Ghana Chamber of Shipping secures ICS associate membership
The Ghana Chamber of Shipping (GCS) has secured an associate member of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) to become more impactful in the country’s maritime space. With this feat, GCS has joined a growing league of ICS members based in West Africa with the Liberian Shipowners’ Council and Nigerian Chamber of Shipping already admitted as members. The move, which makes the chamber a third member in Africa, is expected to help strengthen relationships across the maritime sector as the industry continues to work together to find solutions to collective issues, including piracy, seafarer welfare and training, digitalisation, automation and decarbonisation. Welcome In a release issued in Accra yesterday, the Secretary-General of the ICS, Guy Platten, said: “I am delighted to welcome the GCS to ICS membership.” He said the shipping industry was facing challenges from how it could decarbonise the sector to making sure seafarers had equal access to…
Michael Luguje appointed as IAPH’s new Vice President for the Africa Region
New IAPH Regional Vice President to focus on rallying Africa’s ports to further enhance their resilience International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) is pleased to announce that Mr. Michael Achagwe Luguje, Managing Director, Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, Ghana, has been elected as Vice President for the Africa Region by a vote of confidence of its Region’s members. Michale Luguje commented : “On behalf of my country Ghana and the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, I thank IAPH’s member organizations in Africa for the confidence they have placed in me. During my tenure as VP, I will focus on rallying Africa’s ports to further enhance our resilience through stronger cooperation, knowledge sharing and capacity building within Africa and globally under the umbrella of the IAPH.” IAPH President Captain Subramaniam Karuppiah commented: “We are delighted to welcome Michael to the IAPH board and his new role as Vice President. In…
Select Committee fosters relationship with Maritime Chamber
Members of the Select Committee seated with the Executive Council of the Ghana Chamber of Shipping The Parliamentary Select Committee on Roads and Transport intends to use the expertise of the Ghana Chamber of Shipping (GCS) in the consideration and passage of legislation on the maritime trade sector. According to the Chairman of the committee, Mr Samuel Ayeh-Paye, the chamber had the requisite expertise to assist Members of Parliament (MPs) on the committee to build their capacity and enhance knowledge in the sector to ensure that legislations passed could stand the test of time. Mr Ayeh-Paye made this known when members of the Executive Council of the GSC, a maritime policy think tank, paid a courtesy call on the committee in Parliament in Accra last Tuesday. He maintained that the chamber was very important to the work of the committee, since it would afford the two bodies the…
NCS at Ghana Chamber of Shipping Inauguration
NCS at Ghana Chamber of Shipping Inauguration Nigerian Chamber of Shipping was honored at the Ghana Chamber of Shipping Inauguration. Ghana chamber of Shipping is the trade association and independent voice of the Ghana Maritime Industry.
Local content policy must reflect on Ghana’s maritime industry
Mr Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, the Minister of Transport, has said the Ministry was putting structures, policies and legislations in place to ensure local content policy was made to manifest in the maritime industry. He said work that should be reserved to the indigenes in accordance with international practices and existing legislation would be enforced. Mr Asiamah was speaking at the inauguration of the Ghana Chamber of Shipping (GCS), a new trade association in the country, which seeks to champion the interest of the shipping industry in Accra. The Chamber seeks to provide advice on policies and strategies for the sound development of the maritime industry in Ghana and also liaises with governmental bodies, whose work impinge on the maritime industry in order to achieve harmony in the sector. He said it was within the framework of globalisation and in accordance with best practices that the Ministry was putting these structures…
Chamber of Shipping leads the charge for creation of local content policy for Ghana’s Maritime Industry
Dr Kofi Mbiah The Ghana Chamber of Shipping has initiated moves towards ensuring the creation of a local content policy for the Maritime industry in Ghana. To this end, the Chamber has organised a roundtable conference to deliberate on issues that will engender the formulation of such a policy. The Chamber is examining areas including shipbuilding and ship repair, container repair, fisheries, port infrastructure, recreational boating, ship handling, freight forwarding, ships agency, inland navigation and tourism among others within the framework of Maritime clusters. Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Chamber Shipping, Dr. Kofi Mbiah addressing delegates at the conference noted that there was the need for the examination of the various blocks that make up the Maritime industry and to see that which readily lends itself to local content policies. Dr. Mbiah explained that the Chamber was not oblivious of the fact that not all local content policies…
Ghana Chamber of shipping to champion interest of shipping industry
Convener of the Chamber, Ben Owusu Mensah The Ghana Chamber of Shipping, a new trade association in the country will seek to champion the interest of the shipping industry and bring together the main stakeholders in the industry from both the demand and supply side. The key objective is to protect the various stakeholders with regards to shipping policies and regulations. A statement issued by the chamber at its maiden meeting at the Labadi beach hotel in Accra and copied to the New M& TD stated that the chamber hopes to work with government, parliament international organisations and institutions with interest in Maritime transport to champion and protect the industry on behalf of its members. ‘’Membership of the chamber will give access to unrivalled policy expertise, an extensive network of industry influencers and a voice in government policies and beyond that can simply not be achieved by companies…
Petroleum Commission to give Tema Shipyard facelift
The Petroleum Commission has begun engaging some oil companies to give the Tema Shipyard a face-lift. The Director of Special Services at the Petroleum Commission, Kwaku Boateng, said this would strengthen the capacity of the Shipyard to fabricate parts locally for use in the Petroleum industry. “Tema Shipyard has a good capacity to ensure that we fabricate components of FPSO and other oil installations here. There are still some challenges here, the equipment are outmoded but they have a good facility. What we are trying to do is to collaborate with them and some oil companies to make sure that we revitalize the facility so that we can fabricate component of FPSOs and vessel repairs here in Ghana,” he said. Currently, the Shipyard and Drydock at Tema can service vessels of various sizes. But Kwaku Boateng, who was speaking at the Public Accounts Committee sitting on Monday said the move…
Ghana’s Ports go Paperless
The Paperless Port Transaction system has on Friday September 1, 2017 taken off successfully at the ports. Although the Ports delivery unit which requires clearance transactions did not function because it was a statutory holiday, the ship side of the Port operations was functional. Two people were able to make their online request which the Port Authority’s operational team were able to respond to and served appropriately. Corporate Planning and Monitoring Manager, Josephine Gyima-Akwafo said “We received 2 requests for service from the GICCS platform one is a reefer container and the other was a dry container. When the request was received, we have been able to generate an invoice and sent it back to the GICCS platform for the agent to have access.” On Saturday, September 2, however, things went a little slow as expected on weekends, but pockets of clearing agents came to the GPHA revenue centre to…