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…

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…

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…

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…