Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority — state-owned maritime infrastructure operator managing Tema Port and leading port development initiatives including the Boankra Inland Logistics Terminal project.
… They have since been handed over to the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), and the Marine Police for further investigations and possible legal action. …
The Director of Tema Port, Zumah Tebon esq, on Saturday, May 16, 2026, led staff, management and stakeholders of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority through a health walk aimed at promoting healthy living, workplace wellness and occupational safety within the port community. …
… According to a letter addressed to the Commissioner-General of the GRA, the group claimed information available from the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority suggested that the containers, which were classified as Uncleared Cargo List (UCL) goods, had been taken out of the port und …
… Strategic restructuring and public listing of key SOEs, including Ghana Gas, Tema Oil Refinery, Ghana Airports Company, and Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, could unlock substantial long-term capital while strengthening national economic infrastructure,” Mr. …
… In violation of its own Shareholders’ Agreement, directors from the Ghana Shippers’ Authority and the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) were excluded from the meeting, where the legal action was authorised. …
… Crucially, directors representing the Ghana Shippers’ Authority and Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) were excluded from the meeting that purportedly authorised the legal action. …
… The dispute arose from the Boankra Inland Logistics Terminal Project, a major inland port initiative involving the Government of Ghana through the Ministry of Transport and the Ghana Shippers’ Authority, alongside the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) and Afum Quality Lim …
The Director-General of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), Major General Paul Seidu Tanye Kulono, has led a delegation of the Authority as part of Ghana’s participation in the 22nd edition of Burkina Faso’s National Culture Week. …
… Speaking at the Manhyia Palace during a courtesy call by a delegation from the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), led by Board Chairman Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, the Asantehene expressed dissatisfaction with the slow pace of progress and urged the Shippers Authority and GPH …
The 2024 State Ownership Report shows 35 of 54 state-owned enterprises turned a profit, but the sector posted a net loss of GH¢9.68 billion after tax, worse than the GH¢7.14 billion loss in 2023, driven by losses at a handful of giant utilities and currency revaluation effects from the weakening cedi.
Why it matters
State enterprises' worsened losses (GH¢9.68bn in 2024) expose accountability gaps and fiscal drag in a critical sector despite majority turning individual profits.
The 2024 State Ownership Report shows 35 of 54 state-owned enterprises turned a profit, but the sector posted a net loss of GH¢9.68 billion after tax, worse than the GH¢7.14 billion loss in 2023, driven by losses at a handful of giant utilities and currency revaluation effects from the weakening cedi.
The United Kingdom and Ghana have launched a Growth Partnership to create jobs, strengthen infrastructure, expand trade, and improve access to skills and education, with investment commitments worth up to £215 million secured at the Ghana Investment Summit in London. The agreement, signed during President John Mahama's visit to the UK, will guide cooperation from 2026 to 2028 and includes the £101 million Takoradi Floating Dock Project (ShipRite) expected to create up to 430 direct jobs.
Ghana and the United Kingdom have launched a three-year Growth Partnership from 2026 to 2028 aimed at mobilising investment, creating jobs and supporting infrastructure development through projects worth up to £215 million. Flagship initiatives include a £101 million maritime infrastructure project in Takoradi expected to create up to 430 direct jobs and position Ghana as a regional maritime services hub.
Ghana and the United Kingdom have signed a Growth Partnership framework for 2026–2028 aimed at mobilising investment, creating jobs and supporting infrastructure development, with projects worth up to £215 million. Among flagship initiatives is a £101 million maritime infrastructure project in Takoradi expected to create up to 430 direct jobs.
Dr Godfred Mawuli Tettey, Convenor of Advocates for Indigenous Freight Forwarders, commended GPHA management for its swift response to Dzata-Bu residents' concerns over truck parking and sanitation, which averted a planned three-day community protest. He praised the port's timely engagement with community leaders as demonstrating responsive leadership and strengthening public trust.
The Tema Metropolitan Assembly held its first ordinary session, addressing revenue mobilisation, sanitation, infrastructure and service delivery. The MCE noted that internally generated fund collection had reached 13 per cent of target as of March 2025 and the District Performance Assessment Tool score stood at 35 per cent, below the national average.
Fish catches are declining along Ghana's coast as fishers and processors report changes in the sea, with scientists pointing to warming oceans as a rising threat alongside overfishing and illegal practices. In April 2021, fish washed ashore along parts of Ghana's coastline with dead dolphins; the fisheries commission's preliminary investigations pointed to environmental stressors including elevated sea temperatures, oxygen depletion and pollution.
Persistent losses by state-owned enterprises (SOEs) pose a risk to Ghana's fiscal balance and debt sustainability following the IMF bailout, according to a corporate governance consultant. The article contextualizes Ghana's SOE sector from independence through economic crises of the 1980s–90s, which reduced government capacity to finance operations and worsened SOE performance.
The Ghana Navy rescued seven Ivorian stowaways from the Belgian-registered crude oil tanker MT Cap Felix off Tema after the vessel raised an emergency alert about individuals hidden in its rudder trunk. The rescue followed a distress call received through the Maritime Operations Centre after Abidjan's Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre alerted Ghanaian authorities.
The Ghana Navy rescued seven suspected Ivorian stowaways from the rudder trunk of a Belgium-registered crude oil tanker, MT Cap Felix, approximately 200 nautical miles south of Tema Harbour, following a distress alert relayed by the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre in Abidjan.
The Ghana Navy rescued seven suspected Ivorian stowaways from the rudder trunk of a Belgium-registered crude oil tanker, MT Cap Felix, approximately 200 nautical miles south of Tema Harbour, after receiving a distress alert from the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre in Abidjan. Naval personnel from GNS Achimota extricated the male suspects and transported them safely to Tema Harbour.
The Director of Tema Port led staff, management, and stakeholders through a health walk aimed at promoting healthy living and workplace wellness amid Ghana's growing burden of non-communicable diseases, which account for between 42 and 45 percent of all deaths in the country.
The Movement for Truth and Accountability has petitioned the Right to Information Commission to compel the Ghana Revenue Authority to disclose details surrounding the clearance of 236 Electricity Company of Ghana seized containers from Tema Port, which the group claims were released without payment of duties under unclear circumstances.
The Ghana Stock Exchange is experiencing its most active period of primary equity issuance in nearly a decade, with three IPOs—First Atlantic Bank, ZEN Petroleum, and Kasapreko—set to add around GH¢10.88 billion to the exchange's total market capitalisation. The three listings together account for approximately 4 percent of the market cap.
An Accra High Court Commercial Division has set aside a December 2025 final arbitral award that had ordered Justmoh Construction Limited to repay US$33.3 million to Ashanti Port Services Limited over the Boankra Inland Logistics Terminal project, citing fundamental jurisdictional and procedural failures, including APSL's lack of capacity to commence the arbitration.
The High Court in Accra's Commercial Division 2 has quashed a US$33.3 million arbitral award against Justmoh Construction Limited in the Boankra Inland Port dispute, citing lack of legal capacity, improper board composition, and absence of a cause of action by Ashanti Port Services Limited (APSL).
Ghana's High Court Commercial Division has nullified a US$33.3 million arbitral award against Justmoh Construction Limited in connection with the Boankra Inland Logistics Terminal Project, finding that Ashanti Port Services Limited lacked corporate capacity to initiate the arbitration and that its board was improperly constituted.
The Director-General of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority led a delegation to the 22nd edition of Burkina Faso's National Culture Week in Bobo Dioulasso, where he met with Ghana's Ambassador and discussed GPHA's annual trade mission addressing trader concerns from the previous year.
The Asantehene says completion of the Boankra Integrated Logistics Terminal is necessary for job creation across the youth and the catchment area, and warns that halting the project will cause financial loss to the government.
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has called on government and stakeholders to accelerate work on the Boankra Inland Port project, warning that delays risk wasting public resources and deterring investors. The port, located near Kumasi, is designed to serve as a dry port to ease congestion at Tema Harbour and boost employment and investment.
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has called on the Mahama government and stakeholders to ensure completion of the Boankra Integrated Logistics Terminal to avoid wasting public funds and maintain investor confidence in Ghana's infrastructure capabilities. He expressed concern that project neglect could erode investor trust and undermine employment and investment opportunities.
On inauguration day, Ghana's Presidential Transitions Act automatically removes all board members from every state-owned enterprise simultaneously, requiring the new government to undertake months-long appointment cycles that consume significant political energy and administrative bandwidth.
Ghana's shift to round-the-clock production requires intelligence capability — timely, accurate operational decision-making at scale — where artificial intelligence becomes essential to realising the 24-Hour Economy as transformational policy rather than merely extended hours.
The Board Chairman of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority has called for the completion and operationalisation of the Boankra Integrated Logistics Terminal, describing it as a game-changer needed to generate revenue for the country after nearly 19 years of construction.
The Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority Board Chairman Johnson Asiedu Nketia has emphasized the urgency of completing the Boankra Integrated Logistics Terminal, describing it as a game-changer that will reduce congestion at seaports and bring logistics services closer to businesses in the middle and northern parts of the country.
The Board Chairman of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority has described the Boankra Integrated Logistics Terminal, a dry port project aimed at bringing cargo services closer to central and northern Ghana, as a game-changer that will ease congestion at coastal ports, reduce transport costs, and support trade within Ghana and neighbouring landlocked countries.
The Board Chairman of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority has described the Boankra Integrated Logistics Terminal as a "game-changer" that will decongest coastal seaports, reduce logistics costs, and benefit businesses in middle and northern Ghana and landlocked neighbours.
The Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority has suspended operations at Kpone Unity Terminal indefinitely following intense protests by transit freight forwarders over a directive to move all transit-bound containers to the facility. Freight forwarders argue the relocation was imposed without consultation, disrupting port coordination and clearing processes.