Integrate West African transport systems, banker says

The governor of the Bank of Ghana, Kwabena Duffour, on Monday urged ECOWAS countries to combine their resources and improve the transportation network in the subregion so as to increase trade and collaboration between them, Ghana News Agency (GNA) reported. “An examination of the transport sector suggest that opportunities exist for co-operation and integration by ECOWAS countries to reap maximum benefits,” Duffour said in a speech read out on his behalf at a course on ‘Infrastructure Development and Privatisation’ organised by the West African Institute for Financial and Economic Management. “For instance it is common knowledge that air travel is undertaken with great difficulties and uncertainty owing largely to inadequate operation aircraft and poor management,” he said. “It is regrettable that well over two decades of integration efforts have not yielded a scheduled maritime transportation service on the West Coast to ease cargo movement among the countries,” Duffour added.