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…