{"id":8260,"date":"2014-03-24T16:21:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T16:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=8260"},"modified":"2014-03-24T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T16:23:00","slug":"tema-port-to-become-biggest-port-in-west-africa-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=8260","title":{"rendered":"Tema Port to become biggest port in West Africa \u2013 Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1969149_763622116982280_1006558466_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8261\" alt=\"1969149_763622116982280_1006558466_n\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1969149_763622116982280_1006558466_n.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1969149_763622116982280_1006558466_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1969149_763622116982280_1006558466_n-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a>President, John Mahama has expressed the hope that the ongoing expansion works at the Tema Harbour will make it the biggest port in West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The President on Sunday inaugurated nine new gentry\u2019 cranes at the Tema Port; an investment of nearly US$50million aimed at improving the efficiency of this terminal.<\/p>\n<p>A post on his <strong>Facebook<\/strong> page described the Public-Private Partnership between Ghana Ports &amp; Harbours Authority and Meridian Port Services as \u201cone of the finest models of PPP that we have in our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the President, the same PPP will be used to ensure that expansion work will soon begin at the Tema Port.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is estimated to cost between US$600 million and US$ 1 billion and, when achieved, it will make Tema the biggest and most efficient port not only in West Africa but probably in the whole of Africa,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President, John Mahama has expressed the hope that the ongoing expansion works at the Tema Harbour will make it the biggest port in West Africa. The President on Sunday inaugurated nine new gentry\u2019 cranes at the Tema Port; an investment of nearly US$50million aimed at improving the efficiency of this terminal. A post on his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8261,"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":[21,4],"class_list":["post-8260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-psychiatric","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8260","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}