Citi Business News<\/strong> on the latest development, the Executive Secretary of the Importers and Exporters Association of Ghana, Samson Asaaki Awingobit, lauded the transport minister for the move,<\/p>\n\u201cWe as stakeholders are happy with the minister for the timely intervention because I think that shipping lines did not have any basis to introduce the terminal handling charges,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n
Mr. Awingobit further expressed hope that the policy is abolished completely by government.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe shipping lines are already charging evacuation fee meanwhile they are not the people evacuating. They don\u2019t owe any carriage at the port; it is rather the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) and their allied companies that are working at the port that carry out evacuation of containers and other terminal operators.\u201d<\/p>\n
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By: Jessica Ayorkor Aryee\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Transport Ministry has ordered the immediate suspension of the introduction of the Terminal Handling Charges by the Ship Owners’ and Agents Association of Ghana until further notice. [contextly_sidebar id=”o4c97WNBVVHkFd3qcvZDjZCx9fbxxuun”]The ministry, in the interim, has tasked the Ghana Maritime Authority (GMA) to constitute a committee to investigate the issue. The decision was taken after the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[32,171,11,1166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-local-economy","category-top-stories","category-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238363","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=238363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}