M/V Adobia sets sail

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• David Ofosu-Appiah 12 years ago

  Help Ghana in it's shipping and maritime restoration after collapse of the Black Star Line.

  Help Ghana in it's shipping and maritime restoration after collapse of the Black Star Line.

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• George Asomaning 12 years ago

  Well done Mr Ahorlu, and well done UniBank for this great venture. We pray for God's wisdom, knowledge and for your prosperity. Long live Lady Adobia!!!!

  Well done Mr Ahorlu, and well done UniBank for this great venture. We pray for God's wisdom, knowledge and for your prosperity. Long live Lady Adobia!!!!

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• Lawrence 12 years ago

  Great!!! This is what Ghana deserves! Idea meets Industry meets Banking and Finance! Kudos!!!

  Great!!! This is what Ghana deserves! Idea meets Industry meets Banking and Finance! Kudos!!!

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• Nala 12 years ago

  At least now i have a little bit of hope.

  At least now i have a little bit of hope.

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• Adama d'Gharty, UK 12 years ago

  Shortly Ghanaians with any interest in marine trading will witness the successes that private enterprise produce in proper management of coastal maritime trading. The downfall of the only Ghana national shipping company - The ...
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  Shortly Ghanaians with any interest in marine trading will witness the successes that private enterprise produce in proper management of coastal maritime trading. The downfall of the only Ghana national shipping company - The Black Star Line Ltd was due to acute shuddy management and of course compounded with the total run-down of the ships by poor maintenance culture, ships crewed with non-dedicated Ghanaian personnel who chose to use the cargo holds to carry their own personal goods from Europe to Ghana rather than help to find lucrative general trading cargoes to and from abroad. Hopefully the management of M/V "Adobia" would would not be let down by such encounters and poor management one usually comes across in national trading shipping companies. Good luck to all the men and women that sail in her across the coastal waters of West Africa.

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• Selassie I 12 years ago

  A Former Employee of Black Star Line, the national shipping line, says it was the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) Government that sold the Company and not the Progress Party (PP) Government.
  
  Nana Opoku Agyemang ...
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  A Former Employee of Black Star Line, the national shipping line, says it was the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) Government that sold the Company and not the Progress Party (PP) Government.
  
  Nana Opoku Agyemang III, formerly called K. Takyi-Berko, the Former Employee of the Black Star Line said it was the PNDC that sold the Company based on the recommendations of a committee it set up in 1982.
  
  He was reacting to a publication in a section of the Media to the effect that the PP Government sold the Black Star Line.
  
  "As the London Manager of the Line, I can say with absolute certainty that the asset of the Line included 16 vessels and some other immovable property when Colonel I.K. Acheampong toppled the Progress Party Government in 1972," he said, adding that four new acquisitions were added to the fleet later.
  
  Nana Opoku Agyemang explained that during the Third Republic under President Hilla Limann's Administration when Mr Harry Sawyer was the Minister of Transport and Communications, almost eight years after PP Government was toppled, the Black Star Line was still alive and kicking. He recalled that during the Limann's Administration, a dispute arose between the Officers Afloat and the Government.
  
  "The case came before her Lordship Mrs Justice Koranteng-Addo of blessed memory, and I, a Chartered Shipbroker and at that time the Member of Parliament for Offinso and Mr Kwasi Akoto, an Insurance Expert and the then Member of Parliament for Akropong, appeared before Her Lordship to take the case out of Court for settlement. This further shows that the Line was functioning during the Limann's Regime." Nana Opoku Agyemang said on March 7 1982, the PNDC set up a "Sale of Ships Committee" and he was, therefore, released from the Kumasi Central Prison, where he was in protective custody, to report to Mr B.D.D. Asamoah to become a member of that Committee.
  
  He said, however, that Members of the Black Star Line Committee for the Defence of the Revolution (CDR) protested against his membership on the grounds that he was a PFP Member of Parliament and was, therefore, withdrawn from the Committee.

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• max france 12 years ago

  Selassie, it is true that PNDC sold BSL.
  They did that because of what ADAMA D'GHARTY UK, was saying, My brother was a crew member in MV KETA LAGOON and so i know what i am saying.adama d' Gharty uk is correct.

  Selassie, it is true that PNDC sold BSL.
  They did that because of what ADAMA D'GHARTY UK, was saying, My brother was a crew member in MV KETA LAGOON and so i know what i am saying.adama d' Gharty uk is correct.

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