{"id":350994,"date":"2017-09-06T11:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=350994"},"modified":"2017-11-10T12:04:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T12:04:56","slug":"5-things-to-know-about-paperless-port-system-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=350994","title":{"rendered":"5 things to know about paperless port system [Infographic]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government on \u00a0September 4 2017, commenced the implementation of the paperless clearing at Ghana\u2019s ports.<\/p>\n<p>This follows a directive by Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, for the port agencies to migrate to a paperless system by September 2017, after he observed that\u00a0the current system had too much human interaction and was at the mercy of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Although the implementation was met with some stiff opposition from freight forwarders who claimed they were not educated well enough, the paperless system took off as directed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Below is an infographic capturing the differences between the old system and the paperless system:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-350997 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/paperless-745x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"paperless\" width=\"620\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Melvin Clottey &amp; Pius Amihere Eduku\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government on \u00a0September 4 2017, commenced the implementation of the paperless clearing at Ghana\u2019s ports. This follows a directive by Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, for the port agencies to migrate to a paperless system by September 2017, after he observed that\u00a0the current system had too much human interaction and was at the mercy of [&hellip;]<\/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":[32,2419,11],"tags":[3,1406,10398],"class_list":["post-350994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-infographics","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghana-ports","tag-paperless-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350994","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=350994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}