{"id":170020,"date":"2015-11-27T08:12:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T08:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=170020"},"modified":"2015-11-27T17:20:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T17:20:45","slug":"power-barge-sails-from-takoradi-docks-at-tema-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=170020","title":{"rendered":"Power barge sails from Takoradi; docks at Tema tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

The much anticipated\u00a0225 Megawatts capacity power barge from Turkey, is finally in\u00a0Ghanaian waters in the Western Region, and is being escorted to Tema.<\/p>\n

The barge is expected to arrive at Winneba today [Friday] at 6pm.<\/p>\n

It is expected to dock at the Tema port on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The barge\u00a0was initially scheduled to arrive in Tema on\u00a0Friday morning but\u00a0delays in documentation and routine formalities at the Abidjan Port where the barge was offloaded by the Black Marlin, a speed deck cargo ship which transported it from Turkey, dragged the process.<\/p>\n

Personnel of the\u00a0<\/strong>Western Naval Command with the vessel GNS Bilika, met the barge which entered the Ghanaian waters at 1:00am on Friday.<\/p>\n

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The GNS Bilika of the Western Naval Command expecting the power barge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They are thus providing escort and\u00a0security for the barge\u00a0to Winneba in the Central Region, where the Eastern Naval Command will take over and escort it to its final destination in Tema.<\/p>\n

The two barges, the second of which is expected early next year, is part of the medium term measures adopted by government to mitigate the effects of the power crisis.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Obrempong Yaw Ampofo\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The much anticipated\u00a0225 Megawatts capacity power barge from Turkey, is finally in\u00a0Ghanaian waters in the Western Region, and is being escorted to Tema. The barge is expected to arrive at Winneba today [Friday] at 6pm. It is expected to dock at the Tema port on Saturday afternoon. The barge\u00a0was initially scheduled to arrive in Tema […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":170037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38,21,4],"class_list":["post-170020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-psychiatric","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}