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Debre Inland Marine Port commences

The Vice President of Ghana, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has cut sod for work to begin on the construction of the first Inland marine port in the Northern parts of Ghana and an accompanying Industrial Park at Debre, in the Central Gonja District of the Savannah Region.

Date Created : 7/26/2022 12:00:00 AM : Story Author : Alice Abubakari/ Ghanadistricts

Speaking at the colorful ceremony, Dr. Bawumia stated that, the multimodal transport corridor, known as the Trans-Volta Logistics Corridor, is being undertaken by LMI Holdings and involves the development of a system to transport containers and bulk cargo from the Port of Tema to Burkina Faso and other landlocked countries via the Volta Lake.

Again, an additional port is to be constructed at the termination point of the Tema-Mpakadan railway line, which will facilitate the embarkation and disembarkation of cargo from Tema and Debre.

‘’Let congratulated LMI Holdings for this impressive achievement. As a company, LMI comes to this project with an abundance of experience in infrastructure development with over $450 million in assets, this Ghanaian company has interests in construction, industrial utilities, property, and logistics’’ he stated.

Dr Bawumia concluded that; in the last 20 years, since LMI Holdings developed the Special Economic Zones, over $3.4 billion of foreign direct investment has been contributed to Ghana’s economy.

Present at the ceremony were the Minister for Transport, Mr. Kwaku Ofori Asiamah; Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Mr. Samuel Abu Jinapor, Director General of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, Mr Michael Luguge, and representatives of the governments of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.