The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) has appealed to the Ghana Ports and Harbour Authority (GPHA) to maintain charges at port, despite the 500 per cent increment in international freight charges.
"Freight charges have been increased from $3,000 dollars to $13,000 which has inconvenienced everybody but this is not the right time for GPHA to bring in new charges to cause us more problems especially when businesses are being negatively impacted by the pandemic," president of the association, Dr Joseph Obeng said, in an interview with the Ghanaian Times on Friday.
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