Accra, Dec. 5, -The Queen of
Denmark, Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II, has toured the MPS Terminal and Tema
Port Expansion Project site as part of her three day royal state visit to
Ghana.
The visit afforded Her Royal
Majesty the opportunity to gain insight into the operations of the MPS Terminal
and familiarize herself with the progress of work on the Expansion site.
In the company of Mr. Mohamed
Samara, CEO of the Meridian Port Services, MPS, and Jesper Kjaerulf-Møller,
Director of the Tema Port Expansion Project, Søren Jakøbsen, Portfolio
Director, APM Terminal, HM The Queen first inspected the quayside operations of
the MPS Terminal at the Tema Port.
She then went to the Meridian
Rock; the symbolic landmark marking the line of Greenwich Meridian, the World’s
prime meridian for Longitude and Time that passes through the Tema Port before
finally proceeding to the site of the Tema Port Expansion Project.
HM The Queen’s visit was followed
up with a tour of the MPS Terminal by the Danish Business Delegation who
accompanied her on the visit to Ghana.
Comprising about 40 investors
drawn from the Maritime and other sectors, the delegation affirmed that Ghana’s
present economic climate presented a viable avenue for Danish Blue Chip
Companies that were looking to expand their business.
“The Danish business community is
ready to partner Ghana in providing innovative infrastructure solutions and
technologies in the Maritime Industry to bring shared growth and prosperity to
our countries”.
Briefing journalists on the
sidelines of the tour, Mr. Samara said the new Tema Port was on target to
commence operations on the first two out of four Berths of the new Port by end
of June 2019.
He said through the Danish
shareholders, APM Terminals, MPS had access to considerable amount of
engineering resources and project execution know-how.
On her part, the Danish
Ambassador to Ghana, Her Excellency Tove Degnbol, commenting on Denmark’s
relationship with Ghana said, ‘‘when looking at the amazing progress Ghana has
made during the past 25 years, Denmark is proud to have shared the journey with
our Ghanaian partners.
“Experience so far shows that
there is a large potential for increasing the commercial cooperation between
our two countries’’.
This momentous visit is expected
to yield prospective avenues for the Maritime Sector and boost the ever-
growing economy of Ghana.
The Tema Port expansion project,
a US$1.5 billion port infrastructure investment is being executed by the
Meridian Port Services, MPS, made up of APM Terminals, a company of Danish
origin together with other partners.
When completed, the new
state-of-the-art port will have the capacity to harbour the world’s largest
liner vessels on its 1,400m quay where it will operate four container vessel
berths.
The project began in November
2016 and is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2019.
GNA
Caption: Queen Tour
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