Prime Meridian Docks Ghana Limited, a wholly Ghanaian Company, is set to build a modern ship repair and maintenance facility at the Takoradi Port.
The project comprises civil works and the procurement of a floating dry dock. The civil works involves the dredging of a pocket for the floating dock and the turning basin to-14m and -11m respectively, the construction of a jetty of 200 meters, a fitting-out quay facility that provides up to 400 meters of berthing space and the development of some 18,000 square meters of lay-down area and land-based workshop facility.
At the sod cutting of Prime Meridian Docks (PMD) Floating Dry Dock and Ship Maintenance Facility by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Managing Director of Prime Meridian Docks Limited, Stanley Ahorlu, recalled saying: “In 2014, we came to GPHA and said, we want to solve a problem and they asked, what the problem is? We realised that it was taking quite a lot on vessel owners of West Africa to service and maintain their ships and that all of them were leaving the West Coast of the Gulf of Guinea to Las Palmas Spain, Southern Africa, among others’.
