The Association of Ghana Industry (AGI) has lauded the firm directive by President John Mahama asking shipping lines to halt the Terminal Handling Charges (THC) at the ports.<\/p>\n
The AGI believes the final warning by President Mahama will stop the shipping lines from charging the THC.<\/p>\n
According to the president of the AGI, James Asare Adjei, Ghana loses as much as 70 million dollars to foreign countries through the charges..<\/p>\n
\u201cShipping lines cannot blatantly ignore directives from our ministers in the country; neither can they also siphon over 78 million dollars from the economy as a result of this illegal fee they are collecting.\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Citi Business News, Mr. Asare Adjei said his outfit will work closely with government to ensure that \u00a0the president\u2019s directive is carried out by the shipping lines.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will work closely with the Ministry of Transport and other agencies to ensure that the president\u2019s directives are carried out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAGI is very grateful to his Excellency the president for giving a firm directive to stop the collection of the terminal handling charges. AGI thinks it is illegal, it is not something that should be allowed,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n
President orders Shipping lines to halt THC<\/strong><\/p>\n President Mahama called for the immediate halt of the charging of THC at the ports.<\/p>\n Transport Minister Fifi Kwetey had earlier directed all shipping lines in the country to stop the THC.<\/p>\n Despite the directive, 5 shipping lines MSC Ghana, PIL Ghana, CMA CGM Ghana, Maersk Ghana and Intermodal Shipping Agency Ghana are reported to be still charging the fees and flouting the Minister\u2019s directives.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Jessica Ayorkor Aryee\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Association of Ghana Industry (AGI) has lauded the firm directive by President John Mahama asking shipping lines to halt the Terminal Handling Charges (THC) at the ports. The AGI believes the final warning by President Mahama will stop the shipping lines from charging the THC. According to the president of the AGI, James Asare […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":226559,"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":[32,171,1166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-local-economy","category-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254101","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=254101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/226559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}