GPHA vouches for single window clearance process

The Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, GPHA, has thrown its weight behind government’s plan to introduce the single window system of clearing goods at the ports to ensure shorter dwelling time of cargo.

The move the Authority notes will do away with the current bureaucratic processes, and hugely reduce the cost of doing business.

The General Manager, Business Development at GPHA, Alice Torkornoo, tells Radio Ghana that introducing the system in the face of the recent surge in trade and the pile-up of containerised goods at the terminals is a welcome development.

She said the single window system will provide the platform for an integrated clearance process that will minimise the human factor as much as possible and to a large extent, help to reduce the processing time for trade documents.

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