{"id":3109,"date":"2019-02-20T18:03:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T18:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10003\/?p=3109"},"modified":"2019-02-20T18:03:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T18:03:57","slug":"2018-import-export-transit-trade-figures-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vigorous-feistel.187-124-37-238.plesk.page\/?p=3109","title":{"rendered":"2018 import, export and transit trade figures released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The Ghana Shippers\u2019 Authority (GSA) has released figures of Ghana\u2019s maritime trade performance in 2018 for imports, exports and transit on Wednesday 20 February, 2019 at the Ghana Shippers\u2019 House in Accra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the GSA, Ms Benonita Bismarck announced the figures at the first quarter edition of the Shipper Quarter and Outlook for 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3114\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:10003\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/shipingQTR2-1024x619.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>(From left to right ) Mr Frederick Atogiriye ,Head of Public Relations; Ms Benonita Bismarck,CEO and Mr Emmanuel Arku,Head of Research, Monitoring and Evaluation<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Ghana\u2019s seaborne trade volume increased by 7.9 per cent in 2018 over the year 2017, and the outlook for 2019 is expected to see a growth of about 10 per cent in cargo throughput.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">While total imports for 2017 registered 14.17 million metric tonnes(mt), the figure increased by 1.2 per cent to 14.33 million mt in 2018. This comprise 5.86 million mt of liner cargo, 1.89 million mt of break bulk, 3.86 million mt of dry bulk cargo and 2.72 million mt of liquid bulk imports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Total exports for 2018 also saw a 24.6 per cent increase over 2017&nbsp;&nbsp; from 6.15 million mt to 7.66 million mt.&nbsp;The Far East region alone received 52 per cent (3.96 million mt) of the total volume of exports for 2018 including significant increases in major commodities such as cocoa beans, cashew nuts, bauxite, timber, manganese and wood products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3115\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:10003\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/shipingQTR3-1024x768.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">On transit trade, Ghana\u2019s total trade between Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali in 2018 amounted to 996,969 mt, representing a decline of 3.2 per cent from the 2017 figure of 998,542 mt. The 2018 transit trade volumes comprise imports of 879,935 mt and exports of 87,034 mt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The Shipping Quarter and Outlook has been instituted by the GSA to engage the media and provide timely, authentic and accurate information on the shipping industry to the public<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">For more information on Ghana\u2019s 2018 maritime trade performance, click <a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:10003\/index.php\/trade-statistics\/\">HERE<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Shippers\u2019 Authority (GSA) has released figures of Ghana\u2019s maritime trade performance in 2018 for imports, exports and transit on Wednesday 20 February, 2019 at the Ghana Shippers\u2019 House<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,24],"tags":[259,306,320,352,447,614,905,1231,1273,1622,1696,2102],"class_list":["post-3109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-news","tag-bauxite","tag-break-bulk","tag-burkina-faso","tag-cashew-nuts","tag-cocoa-beans","tag-dry-bulk-cargo","tag-ghana-shippers-authority-gsa","tag-liquid-bulk","tag-manganese-and-wood-products","tag-ms-benonita-bismarck","tag-niger-and-mali","tag-timber"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - 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