Tag: Takoradi Port expansion
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Takoradi Port expansion: Dredging works begin on $500m multi-purpose Atlantic Terminal
Dredging Works have begun on the 500 million-dollar Multi-Purpose Atlantic Terminal expected to pave way for the Takoradi Habour to increase its annual container capacity from the current 50 thousand to one million twenty-foot-equivalent units of containers. The integrated container and multi-purpose Atlantic Terminal Services is a build-operate-transfer project between IBISTEK, an indigenous firm and…
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Takoradi Port to boost efficiency with new multi-purpose tugboat
The Port of Takoradi has secured a multi-purpose Tugboat with 80 tons Bollard-pulls to enable it attract larger ships that do not fit in the original canal locks, such as supertankers and the largest modern container and passenger ships. A tugboat or tug is a type of vessel that maneuvers other vessels by pushing or…