MPS plants 1002 trees within Tema port environment

Meridian Port Services Ltd. has continued on its cause to contribute significantly to the re-greening of the Port environment.

In addition to planting 1001 trees last year, MPS has planted 1002 trees this year.

2 days after the world celebrated Environment Day, the Chief Executive Officer of MPS, Mohammed Samara together with staff of MPS and officials from the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority and other key port community stakeholders dug up holes to plant new coconut trees along the main harbour road.

An initiative that ties into the Green Ghana Project, the CEO of MPS considers this exercise as an environmental responsibility that all within the port environment should commit to.

“Once more, it's the environment that we're in, I cannot isolate us from the rest of the environment any responsible business has to actually give back to the space that he took from the environment. A no net loss is an ideology that we all should think of, if I take from the environment something I have to give her something back,” he said.

The Corporate Estate and Environment Manager at Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, Daniel Asare said GPHA will continue to associate itself with such good causes that serve the environment.

“Port Authorities are now being called upon to adopt their operations as environmentally clean as possible and tree planting has been one of the strategies that we use in checking our carbon footprints, so we plant the tree to serve as a carbon sink to protect the port from environmental pollution because Port operation is full of environmental pollution issues,” he stated.