Kumasi is ready to turn into the primary metropolis in Ghana to have an Electrical Gentle Rail Transportation (Tram System) as a part of the Ghana authorities’s effort to ease site visitors congestion within the capital metropolis.
Also called the Tram System, it is without doubt one of the subtle methods of transport discovered largely in Europe.
The sort of transportation system operates on a rail that travels on tramway tracks on a public city avenue.
The tram know-how is presently being developed by Knights a.s. of the Czech Republic in collaboration and cooperation with the Ministry of Railway Growth of Ghana.
This was made identified by the Chief Govt Officer (CEO) and Chairman of the Board of Administrators of Knights, Dr Karl Laryea, on the launch of the corporate’s twenty fifth anniversary in Accra.
In response to Dr Laryea, the tram system would function three fundamental strains aimed toward decongesting the town of Kumasi and pave approach for straightforward movement of site visitors.
The tram system, he mentioned, would scale back journey time and enhance the standard of the mode of journey presently out there to commuters in Kumasi.
To make this venture successful, Dr Laryea mentioned there was the necessity for an enormous switch of know-how to indigenes who would handle the tram system when constructed.
“On this regard; Knights a.s. of the Czech Republic has facilitated the signing of an MoU between the KNUST and the Czech Technical College in Prague for Ghanaian professors and technicians to be skilled within the Czech Republic who would intend educate Ghanaian college students within the Engineering and Transportation colleges of the KNUST easy methods to function and preserve the tram system,” he mentioned.
Throwing extra gentle on a few of the applied sciences the corporate had developed to reinforce Ghana’s financial system, Dr Laryea mentioned it had additionally developed a whole poultry venture with breeder farms, a whole hatchery of over 20 million eggs for day outdated chicks, feed mill and a 16,500 birds capability processing plant per hour.
“This facility when constructed would produce 30 per cent of the poultry meat consumed in Ghana domestically, thereby lowering our dependence on international imports and provides and creating jobs for the teeming youth of the nation,” he mentioned.
Already, Dr Laryea mentioned the corporate in 2019 signed an Export Contract Settlement with the Ministry of Roads and Highways, for the finance, design, fabrication, provide and set up of fifty composite modular metal bridges in all of the 16 areas of Ghana.”The 50 modular bridges venture with a contract sum of 47.5 million Euros, is the biggest single contract supervised by Knights Ghana Restricted, a subsidiary of the corporate, until date,” he mentioned.
In response to Dr Laryea, the bridge venture have been at numerous phases of completion and venture have been on schedule to be accomplished by Might 2023.
In a speech learn on his behalf, the Minister of Roads and Highways, Mr Kwesi Amoako Atta, counseled Knights.a.s for his or her contribution to Ghana’s financial development.
He mentioned with the help and help from the corporate, Ghana had benefited from various curiosity free loans which had led to the institution of many initiatives, notably the bridge initiatives.
For his half, the Commerce Attache on the Czech Embassy in Ghana, Mr Matej Denk, mentioned the Czech authorities was extra dedicated in deepening their partnership with Ghana.