Construction of the Boankra Inland Port project in Ghana is set to be complete in 2024. The Concessionaire, Ashanti Ports Services Limited, a joint ve
Construction of the Boankra Inland Port project in Ghana is set to be complete in 2024. The Concessionaire, Ashanti Ports Services Limited, a joint venture of Afum Quality Limited of Ghana and DSS Associates of the Republic of Korea assured the country’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo that the project will be done by the first quarter of 2024.
“By the end of 2023 eighty percent (80%) will be done, and, by the end of the first quarter 2024, we will finish the project.” said the Concessionaire.
Boankra Inland Port project
The US$330 million Boankra Integrated Logistics Terminal project covers a total land area of 413 acres, near Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. Construction of the Inland port-Dry port has been on the drawing board for some 18 years, stalling since 2008 following a number of challenges, a significant one being the exit of the NPP government in 2009.
The port’s goal is to provide service to importers and exporters in the middle and northern parts of the country, and also to act as a major conduit for the efficient transportation of transit traffic to and from our neighbouring landlocked countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.
The Terminal, will be fitted with an inland clearance depot, customs bonded and unbonded estates, commercial areas such as banks, offices and trading facilities, vehicle parking areas, light industrial areas, and an administration complex. The Concessionaire is expected to design, engineer, finance, procure, construct, operate, and maintain the project, and transfer title to the Government after a 30 year period.
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