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Meridian Port Services Ltd (MPS) and China Harbor Engineering Company (CHEC) have signed an agreement to carry out the second phase of the Tema Port Expansion Project.

According to MPS, this agreement involves the construction of the 4th and the last berth of the new port.

The new contract adds another 400 meters of berth to the 1000 meter already being built creating a total of 1.4 kilometers of full capacity berth capable of handling vessels up to 16-meter draft, reported MPS.

They also said that the second phase will add about 30 hectares of land to the total area, creating a total of 127 hectares of new terminal.

After 35 months of hard work, the Tema Port Terminal 3 is now operational and ready to accommodate its 1st commercial vessels, reports Meridian Port Services Ltd (MPS).

The handover ceremony between construction and operation teams took place last Friday, June 28.

Present at the ceremony were the Director General of the Ghana Ports and Harbors’ Authority, the Director of the Port of Tema, the CEO of MPS, the Sector Commander of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority and the Metropolitan Chief Executive of Tema.

This massive $1 billion infrastructure project – managed by Meridian Port Services, a joint venture between APM Terminals (35%) Bolloré Africa Logistics (35%) and the Ghana Ports and Harbor Authority (30%) – involved construction of a breakwater and an access channel with deep-water berths to accommodate larger vessels with sophisticated port handling equipment.

In late May, MPS and China Harbor Engineering Company (CHEC) signed an agreement to carry out the construction of the 4th and the last berth under the Tema Port Expansion Project.

As MPS reported, this contract with CHEC will add another 400 meters of berth to the 1000 meter already built, creating a total of 1.4 kilometers of full capacity berth capable of handling vessels up to 16-meter draft.

They also added that this last phase of works will add about 30 hectares of land to the total area, creating a total of 127 hectares of new terminal.

This last phase of Tema Port Expansion Project is envisaged to be completed by the end of 2020.

DEME Group has just unveiled this photo from a challenging port expansion project completed in Ghana.

Building on the company’s previous success in the region, in 2017, DEME was awarded several new contracts in Africa with a total value of approximately EUR 125 million.

The contracts were awarded for projects in Angola, Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia and Nigeria.

In Ghana DEME participated in the contract for the Tema Port expansion project.

The port – Ghana’s main seaport, operated by Meridian Port Services (MPS) – was gearing up to accommodate some of the world’s largest container ships and brought DEME to solve the congestion problem.

For the new container terminal at Tema Port DEME’s cutter suction dredger ‘D’Artagnan’ and trailing suction hopper dredger ‘Breughel’ dredged about 2 million m³ of mainly hard rock materials.