Ghana Ports: Among Africa’s Leading Ports in Terms of Container Operations and Modernity

Michael Luguje, Director General of GPHA (Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority), shares his assessment of the development and attractiveness of the ports in Ghana in terms of modernity and efficiency. He also explains how Ghana stands compared to other global ports.

“In terms of modernization of ports, Ghana is among the few ports that started modern container terminal development. We opened ours in 2004, which is the MPS Container Terminal 2. At that time, when we opened our terminal with gantry cranes, only Abidjan had gantry cranes in their terminal. Much later, others followed like Nigeria, Togo, and Dakar in Senegal. In terms of modernization, Ghana has always been in the lead, especially if you look at our MPS3 project that is also ongoing. Togo took the lead because of the MACS terminal in developing a modern container terminal. In terms of capacity, though, what we are developing in Tema is the biggest if you are looking at West Africa, minus South Africa which has a much bigger capacity than us, excluding Tanger in Morocco which also has a much bigger volume. Looking at sub-Saharan, Western and Central Africa, Ghana occupies an enviable position in terms of container operations and modern ports. Ghana is also among the few countries that has more than one port. Nigeria of course has a bigger economy. Despite Nigeria’s size, if you think in terms of single ports, Lagos Port separated from the rest, we still lead in terms of container volumes. But if you put all Nigerian ports together, that is where they have crossed the 1.2 million TEU mark. But Tema alone, as of the end of 2018, has been able to hit the 1 million TEU mark. Fortunately, for us, because of oil being found in the western region, we are also leading in terms of oil port services delivery for the Takoradi Port. There is a very ambitious project there to position Takoradi Port as the oil services hub for Ghana”, says Michael Luguje.

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