KTS inaugurates new offices at Tarkwa

Akyempim (W/R), Feb. 28 96GNA-A two-billion-cedi offices and engineering workshop constructed by Kingdom Transport Services, (KTS) was inaugurated at a ceremony at Akyempim a suburb of Tarkwa. Pioneers in contract bussing services KTS is the authorized service centre for PHC Motors, sole distributors of TATA, BMC and Chrysler vehicles.

With over fifteen years experience in Ghana and about hundred fleet of vehicles, KTS employs about two hundred people in Ghana and has other workshops in Tema, Takoradi and would open the latest one in Obuasi. The inauguration of the offices and workshop complex, the company's first in the Wassa West District, was to afford management the opportunity of interacting with stakeholders and brainstorm on how best to improve their operations in the district.

In an address read on his behalf, Mr Emmanuel Kwasi Ayensu, Wassa West District Chief Executive said the company should be maintenance conscious to avoid interrupted services in conveying mine workers to and from their work sites on time.

He said this would help the various mining companies to meet their production targets to enable them also pay KTS. Mr Ayensu told the KTS drivers to drive carefully and be fair to the smaller vehicles on the roads, saying, that some of the KTS drivers bully drivers with smaller vehicles on the roads. He told mechanics at the workshop, not to steal the spare parts, adding, 93that would increase operational cost and reduce profit because the company would spend more money to buy parts to service vehicles."

Mr Ayensu, told the company to establish a workplace policy on HIV/AIDS and encourage the workers to patronize the Voluntary Counselling and Testing Centre at the Tarkwa Government Hospital. Mr Emmanuel Mensah, the general secretary of the General Transport, Petroleum and Chemical Workers Union (GTPCWU) of the Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC), said there was the need for employees to justify the investments made by their employers by contributing meaningfully to the advancement of their workplaces.

This he said would not only ensure the growth and success of the company but also lead to an improvement in the working conditions of the employees.

Mr Mensah told the workers to continue to support management in its efforts to turn around KTS from a recessed state to a more vibrant and booming organization.

This, he said calls for commitment to duty, punctuality at work, total discipline at all levels, greater co-operation and mutual understanding of each others views in attaining growth and success. For his part, the chairman of KTS, Ghana, Mr Dominic Adu, said the company is poised to increase and upgrade its services to meet the standards of its customers.

In line with this, he said plans are afoot to open another workshop and office complex at Bogoso in the same district to cater for their customers there.

Mr. Adu was full of commendation for Goldfields Ghana Limited and Anglogold Ashanti for patronizing the services of KTS even when the going got tough and pledged the company's continues support for the two institutions.