Local exporters in the Upper East Region has met with the Ghana Shippers’ Authority to dialogue on the strategies in adding value to their raw materials before exporting to meet the international trade and transportation logistics standards.
The dialogue also formed part of the Authority’s efforts to sensitize local exporters the readiness of the outfit to protect and promote their interests in the country’s commercial shipping sector as well as developing new innovative methods that will focus on competitiveness amongst them to meet the ever-increasing challenges of international trade and transport.
Speaking at the stakeholders’ engagement organized by the Authority in Bolgatanga, the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Shippers’ Authority, Ms. Benonita Bismarck, explained that as the country was ready to adopt the African Continental Free Trade Area, local exporters will have to begin finding innovative measures of adding value to their raw materials before exporting so that they can meet the international trade standards.
“The trade aims to create a single market as well as deepening the economic integration of the continent and establishing a liberalized market through multiple rounds of negotiations. We want to encourage that, and we should be able to trade across the borders. Ghana will be hosting the secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area and we hope it will help the country meet the needed expectations”
“We shouldn’t just export our shea butter without adding values to it, there is more we can do if you add little to it the price will change which help you the exporter” She said.
Local exporters, who appreciated the initiative, pledged that they will do more in terms of branding their products to meet the international trade values.
The Upper East Regional Secretary for Livestock Traders, Alhaji Abu Salim Isakar, on behalf of his Union, said that the engagement did not only educate them on how to brand their raw materials but has helped in guiding them in international trade.
Source:A1radioonline.com|101.1MHZ|Ghana
