The first emergency 225 Mega Watts capacity power barge from Turkey is to set sail towards Ghana from Ivory Coast today, 23rd November, 2015.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”Ovjle9U4C6qcTvFdrbeuSI85M6o2ldtx”]The barge is expected to arrive in Ghana by Friday November 27, 2015.<\/p>\n
This comes after the Black Marlin, a speed deck cargo ship transporting the power barge arrived in Abidjan \u00a0on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Black Marlin arrived in Turkey on Saturday November 7, and departed Istanbul with the power barge in just an hour same day, according to information on \u00a0marinetraffic.com.<\/p>\n
The Black Marlin was estimated to arrive at the port of Cote d\u2019Ivoire on\u00a0November 22, 2015, 15 days after takeoff, according to the marinetraffic.com arrived scheduled.<\/p>\n
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the power barge will be released to sail to Tema Port pulled by two speed boats which will take approximately 5 days to finally dock at the Tema Port.<\/p>\n
The power barge was originally scheduled to dock at the Tema Port in the first quarter of this year, but this has since been rescheduled three times.<\/p>\n
The emergency power barges form part of government\u2019s immediate interventions to address\u00a0\u00a0the shortfalls in power supply.<\/p>\n
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By:\u00a0 Norvan Acquah – Hayford\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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