THE Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) will start construction works next year on a six-lane road from the motorway roundabout to the Tema Harbour as part of the project to ease traffic congestion in the port.
The project includes a dual-carriageway to be constructed from the Nungua barrier to the port, to ease vehicular movement in and out of the port, as well as the building of a new modern car park at Kpone, near Tema, to avoid the high rate of accidents around the port following the indiscriminate parking of trucks within the port business area.
The Director General of the GPHA, Mr Nestor Percy Galley, disclosed this at a staff durbar in Tema.
Mr Galley said in its quest to complement government’s objective to make the Tema port the hub in the sub-region, the GPHA would soon begin expansion works at the Takoradi and Tema ports.
These projects, according to Mr Galley, would involve the installation of oil service facilities at the Takoradi port to support Ghana’s emerging oil industry.
The Director-General noted that the problem of laid-up vessels which had added to the congestion inside the port was receiving attention.
Mr Galley indicated that construction works on a new maritime hospital project would soon take off following the acquisition of land, and that would form part of efforts to provide quality and accessible healthcare for its workforce.
He pledged his commitment to partner with the Ghana Customs, Exercise and Preventive Service (CEPS) to ensure that incidents of tax evasion, drug trafficking and related crimes were stemmed.
Mr Galley also asked stakeholders in the maritime industry to come on board to help the authority in the provision of quality services, as well as ensure that the government’s gateway programme was achieved.
He challenged the workers to maintain the highest form of discipline and professionalism in their various job descriptions and warned that employees found to engage in activities that contravened the regulations of the authority would be dealt with.
The Director of the Tema Port, Mr Richard Anamoo, charged workers to be committed to the improvement of productivity.
He said to ensure that employees played a functional role of turning its fortunes around, it would soon begin training in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for all staff and encouraged them to take advantage of the package immediately it began.
The workers called on the management to take a critical look at the concession agreement signed by the authority and the Meridian Ports Services, which they described as affecting the authority’s business for many GPHA employees were idling because of unavailability of tasks.
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