Akhil Gupta
WORK ON the 97-kilometre
Tema-Mpakadan railway line is expected to be completed 9 months ahead of time,
Akhil Gupta, Executive Director of AFCONS Infrastructure Limited assured.
According to him, the project
was scheduled to be completed in July 2021 but it would rather be completed in
September 2020.
He stated that though
the project was redesigned to provide lodgings will not affect the date of
completion since AFCONS Infrastructure is committed to add value to the
delivery of their works,
“This railway project
has been basically conceived as part of the multi-model transport infrastructure
for Ghana. This means that from Tema Port, the goods apart from passengers can
be carried through this railway line to Mpakadan and loaded on the Volta River
to the Northern part of the country,” Mr. Gupta stated.
He said the project is
about 50 percent complete, saying the company was on track with its timelines
and was even doing better on its monthly targets.
Speaking with DAILY GUIDE
ahead
of today’s sod cutting of a $20 million railway bridge on the Volta Lake
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the Executive Director said the 300
meters bridge project which would be completed in September 2020 would not only
improve railway transportation but it will also boost revenue for the country.
He stated that the pending
project would give them the needed boost to bid for other projects in the
country as a result of their high portfolio of major projects undertaken in the
marine, road, port and construction sectors across the globe.
Mr. Gupta said AFCONS
Infrastructure Limited is opened to other railway development and road
constructions in the country.
The Executive Director
has expressed optimism of his company partnering government to address the
infrastructure deficit facing the country.
AFCONS Infrastructure
Limited, a subsidiary of Shapoorji Pallonji Group, an India’s third largest
construction company and was awarded the contract on July 2, 2018.
The project begins from Tema through Afienya, North Tongu District in the Volta Region, Manya Krobo and terminates at Mpakadan, a few kilometres away from Akosombo.
From Vincent Kubi, Tema
