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for the country have been presented to the Ghana Airports Company Limited at a ceremony in Accra, witnessed by the Minister of Transport, Mrs. Dzifa Attivor.

The design has a proposed annual passenger throughput of 4.5 million, an annual passenger aircraft movement of 33,835, and a peak hour passenger aircraft movement of 12. In addition, China Airport Civil Construction (CACC) has made provision for 13 passenger aprons. A passenger apron is the area of an airport where aircraft are parked, unloaded or loaded, refuelled, or boarded.

The new airport is to be located at Prampram in the Dangbe West District of the Greater Accra Region and is one of the projects earmarked by the Ministry of transport and the Ghana Airports Company Limited to make the country the aviation hub in the West African sub-region.

Presenting the Feasibility Study and a prototype design of the new airport to officials of the Ministry of Transport and the Ghana Airports Company, Ms Wei Wang of the China Airport Civil Construction Company said their aviation experts have been in Ghana since November last year working on the feasibility study.

The Terminal area is 45,000 square metres, cargo throughput is 30,000 tonnes, and there is a cargo warehouse area of 7,000 square metres as well as a car park area of 42,000 square metres among other details.

The CACC signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry in September 2012 to begin a feasibility study on the new international airport.


Mrs. Attivor expressed her appreciation for the presentation and said she was impressed, adding that a technical team has been established to review the report in order for the country to make the best of the situation.

The need for a new international airport for the country has become necessary as both domestic and international travel increases at the Kotoka International Airport.

Nigeria will lose today won't qualify for Afcon.


Ghana,Cameroon and South Africa are the real giants of Africa.


Discuss

Only Ghana can save west Africa

Ghana is top of their group


Nigayria is at the buttom.


Only Ghana can save west Africa

sudan 2 - nigeria 0

hahahahahaha mods change the scores na

Ghana must teach Nigeria how to play football.

Des0la:
wale112, why can't you quote this guy?

What is he doing in Ghana by the way? Generator fumes got his brains messed up

Des0la:
that part of the article tells who is in charge in west africa.

Its a trap

overhypedsteve:
you ve got a problem with my "G" isn't it a nice beautiful G.

which brand of generator do u use?

overhypedsteve

Nigeria must lose today

write2obi:
yes say what u know, I've been to Ghana and they only focus on supplying power to the developed areas while the undeveloped areas suffer while Nigeria on the other hand tried to share what we generate to both the rich and the poor. The power used in Ghana as a country, will not serve half of Lagos state, so chill kid brother

fuckkkking Eba eater keep up with the lies

write2obi:
They should just admit it, they ar our kid brother

Really? Kid brother who doesn't use generators in 2014

ChimaAdeoye:
What about Ghana fearing Nigerians and deporting them in spite of ECOWAS free movement protocol?

We don't want any manufactured goods from Ghana. Let our factories produce them and offer employment to Nigerians. Who might otherwise have gone to Ghana which relishes deportation of Nigerians while depending on Nigerian money.

When did Ghana deport Nigerians?

ROSSIKE:
This man is using style to beg, sha. They always seem to be appealing to Nigeria for one thing or the other these days. I wonder where they'd be without us.

Nigerians fear Ghanaians too much what happen to Ecowas?

emmysoftyou:
turkey miss road?
them no dey watch news ?
nigeria don dey cry 4 light,dey shout 4 light,
una come c ghana wey dey get constant light 4 africa,una come ship in 450megawatt to them..
una dey ok so? That s why dey call una turkey bc if una no be chicken,una fall mak enquiries b4 una ship in 450megawat 4 gana wen naija stil dey 4 d ages of shouting up nepa

What has nigeria done with their oil and gas?

Ghana must save Nigeria

Nigeria has nothing to fear from Ghana or her other West African countries, and so must open her markets to her neighbours without any prohibitions, ECOWAS Chair John Mahama has said.

According to the Ghanaian president, the yearly list of trade prohibitions published by Nigeria against Ghana and other West African neighbhours is counterproductive to the integration agenda of the sub-region.

“We need a West African clearing house where we can clear our LCs and trade instruments to be able to move goods across our countries without prohibitions, and I keep telling my friend president Jonathan that that prohibition list that Nigeria publishes every year is a thing of the past”, the president of the world’s second-largest cocoa producing country said when spoke as the Guest of Honour at the launch of First Bank of Nigeria (FBN) in Accra Wednesday.

The Nigerian bank recently, wholly, acquired Ghana’s International Commercial Bank (ICB).

Using the opportunity to campaign for increased trading between Africa’s biggest economy and the world’s major gold producer, President Mahama said: “Nigeria has nothing to fear from Ghana, you are the largest economy in Africa. You must learn to compete with Ghana”.

“…Tell your Manufacturers’ Association of Nigerian that you have nothing to fear from Ghana; competition is good for both countries. Let us export the textiles into your country; let us export the processed goods into your country; and you export yours into ours; and I think that it’ll make our two countries stronger”, Mahama said.


http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=329745

sheunfemix:
You well so?

Yes thats the score

Nobleval:
Good for Ghana....450mw only?

yes its better than using generator in 2014

Turkey is building two electricity-generating vessels to produce power to Ghana that is equivalent to more than one-fifth of the West African country's electricity needs.

Karadeniz Energy Group, the energy wing of the Turkey-based Karadeniz Holding, is spearheading the construction project and when it becomes operational will contribute up to 450 megawatts of power to Ghana's national electricity grid.

"Karpowership Ghana Company will be supporting the Electricity Company of Ghana and the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum, while providing a turnkey solution to deliver fast-track electricity to meet the country's high energy demand," company director Patrick O'Driscoll told Anadolu Agency.

Karpowership Ghana Company Limited, a subsidiary of Karadeniz Energy Group, the energy wing of the Turkey-based Karadeniz Holding, signed a ten-year power purchase agreement in June with the state-run Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).

The company will build two floating power stations at a total estimated cost of $1.2 billion.

"The cost of a ship is $600 million, but this has been pre-financed by Karpower because it is an independent power producer," Ebenezer Baiden, a member of the tariff team at ECG, told AA.

"Ghana will only have to pay them every month when they start generating power from May 1, 2015," he added.

ECG, which does not generate power and depends on various state-owned and private power producers, has made a $50-million commitment to the deal.

"It is collateral to say that when they sail from Turkey to Ghana, we will not relent on the deal," Baiden explained. "We produced the bank guarantee to Karpower to prove our commitment."

The deal is believed to be the largest Turkish investment project in Ghana.

Karadeniz is the developer, owner and operator of a fleet of power ships with an overall capacity of more than 1,100 megawatts.

It currently has three ships in Iraq, two in Lebanon, one in Pakistan and one in Dubai.

The company reportedly supplies 10 percent and 20 percent of Iraq's and Lebanon's respective electricity needs.

Much needed

The power ships will dock at Tema and Takoradi – Ghana's two port cities – near suitable grid interconnection points.

They will contribute up to 450 megawatts of power to Ghana's national electricity grid.

"It is projected that with the two power ships, Karpowership Ghana will eventually supply 21 percent of the country's [power] generation [based on 2013 figures]," O'Driscoll asserted.

Karpowership Ghana said the deal would be an economical solution to Ghana's existing electricity supply – which relies on expensive crude oil – while providing employment and attracting badly needed foreign direct investment.

"With the use of low-cost fuel, the power ships will deliver a total cost of electricity into the grid that will enable a competitively priced tariff to deliver savings for the government," said O'Driscoll.

He added that the power ships would initially use economic – and abundant – Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) to generate electricity, but would transition to natural gas during the project's second phase.

Baiden, the Ghanaian official, said the power ships would run on HFO for the first five years, switching to natural gas in the sixth year.

While the ships are running on HFO, Ghana will pay $0.19 for each unit per kilowatt. When they start running on natural gas, the cost will fall to $0.15.

Edward Bawa, an Energy Ministry spokesman, said the power ships would help improve the West African country's energy situation.

"There is an issue where the load demand is almost the same as the amount of power available, so the reserve margin is non-existent," he told AA.

"Technically, we are supposed to have about 20 percent of our installed capacity being our reserved margin," Bawa said.

"If we are able to have this facility, anytime we have a challenge with any of our plants, we can rely on it," he added. "So this will come in to plug that gap of deficit that we have."


http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/business/artikel.php?ID=329933

If Ghana does not save Africa there will be no Africa.
Saying only Ghanaian rule can save West Africa is getting
old... It is now self-Evident!!
So you have 2 options!
1) Go under Ghanaian rule
2) Go under Ghanaian rule now!

Buoyantic:
Where are the Ghanaians on nairaland? Dey only storm here when bad things happen to Nigeria

The Ghana Air Force has begun the airlifting of about one hundred tons of humanitarian food relief items to three Ebola affected countries, Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

The relief items include three thousand (3,000) bags of rice grown and packaged in Ghana, three hundred (300) cartons of Ghanaian produced cooking oil, three hundred (300) cartons of Milk manufactured in Ghana and three hundred (300) cartons of Made in Ghana cocoa drinking products.

The items, a donation from President John Mahama on behalf of the government and people of Ghana will help feed persons in treatment centers and others currently on quarantine in isolation centers.

During his three-nation visit on Monday, President Mahama made a symbolic presentation of some of the items to the Presidents of the countries, noting that the gesture "was a symbol of solidarity with the affected countries."

He stated that Africans don't have to always wait for the developed world to come to our aid in times of crisis.

"We must show love to each other in our own small way, Mr. Mahama said.


http://reliefweb.int/report/liberia/ghana-air-force-airlifts-relief-assistance-three-ebola-affected-countries

Something Ghana did months ago