Contracta, which is the company in charge of the facility will be managing it for two years after commissioning.
This is a project made possible by the Ghanaian government with the partnership and financing of the Brazilian government; with all the structural components and other materials for the project imported from Brazil.
Rather, only loading and offloading will be done with the transport unions and the KMA managing this aspect of the facility.
A mobile phone application has been developed by the management team to help facilitate when vehicles are supposed to come and load passengers. Construction started in 2015 and the decision to adopt steel construction was mainly hinged on speed of erection and the need to finish the project as early as possible although this costs more than the traditional masonry construction in Ghana.The facility is designed to accommodate 300,000 people when it is full to capacity, but it is equipped with technology and measures put in place to evacuate everyone in 12 minutes in case of emergencies such as fire outbreak.
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This caused reduction in productivity and decline in micro economic growth and its related issues as loaded vehicles would stay in traffic for an hour or more before exiting the lorry park.Kejetia Lorry Park, picture taken 13.12.2013 | Daniel SarpongIn 2014, the Parliament of Ghana gave the approval for the Kejetia project for reasons we all believe stemmed from the aforementioned preamble of the essence of effective transportation in economic development.
Increase in the population of Kumasi (GSS, 2012), increase in vehicular volume (Drivers and Vehicular Licensing Authority (DVLA), 2013) and increase in economic activities had put a lot of pressure and demand on the lorry park.
There was therefore, the influx of people coupled with increased volume of vehicles and competition for space caused by commercial activities within the lorry park.
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