Basic HTML Version
85
www.ebizguides.com
Transport
INTER MARITIME SERVICES LTD
David Ameble
Managing Director
Inner Fishing Harbour, Tema,
PO Box 386, Achimota, Accra
Tel: (+233) 22 216197 / 208437 /
Fax: (+ 233) 22 208437
david.ameble@intermaritimeghana.com
www.intermaritimeghan.com
Inter Maritime Services Limited’s marine products
provide fuels, lubricants and related technical ser-
vices to the shipping industry through a network of
more ports in Africa. It supplies about 200 custom-
ers involved in a broad range of shipping operations,
including ocean-going tankers, containerships, dry
bulk commodity carriers, cruise-liners, ferries, fish-
ing, as well as specialized offshore exploration and
production vessels, dredgers, and salvage vessels.
Inter Maritime Services as a partner to Shell has a
global commitment to promoting best practice and
standards in the industry, working hardest to ensure
efficient delivery of our products to customers in a
responsible and safe manner.
The demand for a wide variety and choice of fuels,
especially in the development of low sulphur fuel oil,
is increasing and Shell Marine Products is commit-
ted to ensuring that product integrity is maintained to
the very highest levels.
Their extensive knowledge of the bunker industry as
well as their business experience in shipping allows
them to provide their customers with the assurances
they need.
MESTAD MARINE
PO Box CO 2883, Tema, Accra
Tel: (+233) 24 3041937, (+233) 20 8191434
Fax: (+233) 30 3200108
mestad1@yahoo.com / mestadlimited@gmail.com
www.geodrill.com.gh
Main Entities
Entry into the public transportation field is unrestrict-
ed. Most services are offered by private operators
and competition is keen despite the presence of two
partly state-owned firms, Metro Mass Transit and
State Transport Corporation. There is a sizable num-
ber of companies in the country which provide sales
and after sales services. These are PHC Motors,
Japan Motors and Mechanical Lloyd among others.
In addition to car and truck sales, a number of firms
also deal in modern vehicle diagnostic systems.
Hundreds of independent dealers also serve the
second-hand automobile market. The sector en-
joys a well-established market outlet in the country
in terms of access to raw materials, technology and
supporting services.
Demand for freight services transcends Ghana’s
borders. The country’s over-land trading partners
and land locked neighbours commonly rely on the
transportation services from Ghana. Furthermore,
the rehabilitation of Ghana’s ports at Tema and Tako-
radi, as well as the Kotoka International Airport has
broadened the capacity for utilizing Ghanaian trans-
port services in wake of the ECOWAS convention.
It is now common for goods consigned to Burkina
Faso and other neighbouring countries to land in
Ghana for over-land freight forwarding.
Tourism has emerged as the nation’s third largest
foreign exchange earner. The Ministry of Tourism
estimates’ have shown that the number of busi-
ness and tourist visitors to Ghana is increasing each
year, and that tourists spend around of 16% of their
budgets on transportation expenses. While the total
number of visitors in 2000 was nearly 400,000, the
figure increased to 698,069 in 2008. Roughly 55% of
Ghana’s visitors are vacation tourists while 37% are
business travellers.
The figures underscore the growing need for vehicle
leasing enterprises (car, van, bus) to accommodate
these groups.
Tolling of roads is one area which poses investment
opportunity in the sector. The government of Ghana
has secured a Public-Private Infrastructure Facility
(PPIAF) for a study on road concession and tolling.
This is on-going and it will boost investment in the
sector when it comes into being.
A rehabilitation programme aimed at removing phys-
ical bottlenecks in the railway company in the sec-
tor is underway. A restructuring programme with the
objective of attracting private sector investors has
been proposed. Plans are far advanced to privatize
railway management and development to interested
local and foreign parties. The government has plans
to concession the eastern, central and western rail-
way lines for a period of twenty to twenty-five years
to a partner who will modernize and run it on a com-
petitive basis which will also facilitate economic de-
velopment.