{"id":1041382,"date":"2022-04-01T08:58:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T08:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/01\/president-commissions-state-of-the-art-nissan-assembly-plant-at-tema\/"},"modified":"2022-04-01T08:58:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T08:58:05","slug":"president-commissions-state-of-the-art-nissan-assembly-plant-at-tema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/01\/president-commissions-state-of-the-art-nissan-assembly-plant-at-tema\/","title":{"rendered":"President commissions state-of-the-art Nissan assembly plant at Tema"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Tema, March 31, GNA – President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Thursday officially opened the brand-new state-of-the-art Nissan vehicle assembly plant in the Tema Industrial enclave, near Accra.<\/p>\n
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The nine-million-Dollar 5000 Square meter plant, a partnership between Japan Motors Ghana, and Nissan Africa, will assemble Nissan\u2019s hardy Navara pick-up truck for the Ghanaian and West African market.<\/div>\n
At a short ceremony, President Akufo-Addo said the intervention was an important milestone in Ghana\u2019s quest to make the country a manufacturing hub and a leading player in the automobile industry in Africa.<\/div>\n
The establishment of the plant, he stated, attested to the attractiveness of Ghana as a prime investment destination despite the current economic challenges largely occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/div>\n
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The President said the collaboration between a leading Ghanaian company and a global Japanese vehicle brand, made an even more compelling case for Ghana as the new commercial and investment capital for Africa.<\/div>\n
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The development of the automobile industry is one of the strategic anchor industries being promoted by government under its investment promotion agenda to diversify the Ghanaian economy.<\/div>\n
Currently, the importation of both motor and transport vehicles constitutes the leading import into Ghana, estimated at a total annual value of 1.5 billion dollars.<\/div>\n
President Akufo-Addo noted that the COIVID-19 pandemic and the disruption in the global supply chain, underlined the critical need for Ghana to become more self-reliant and produce what the country uses domestically.<\/div>\n
However, that development, he said, had opened opportunities for Ghana to enhance its industrial productive capacities to feed the domestic and export market.<\/div>\n
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Ghana has over the past three years attracted investment from several global iconic brands including Volkswagen and Toyota which have commenced operations.<\/div>\n
Other original equipment manufacturing groups including Hyundai, Kia and Isuzu have also reached advanced stages of commencing commercial production in the country.<\/div>\n
Those new investments, President Akufo-Addo pointed out, had been realized on the back of Ghana\u2019s new automotive development programme which offered very generous fiscal incentives, creating the attractive environment for the industry to thrive.<\/div>\n
He assured Japan Motors and Nisan of the safety and profitability of their investment, adding that the government was determined to support the automotive industry.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe will continue to design innovative policies to ensure the sustainability of the industry,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n
Nissan\u2019s Africa Managing Director, Mike Whitfield, said the plant was proof of the fantastic public private partnership between the Government of Ghana, Japan Motors, and Nissan Africa<\/div>\n
\u201cThe existence of this plant is tribute to the passion and commitment of Japan Motors investing USD 9 million, which would not have been possible without the security and certainty offered by the Government of Ghana\u2019s progressive automotive industry development policy which was signed into law in record time.<\/div>\n
\u201cGhana today stands as a benchmark for the African automotive industry, an example of what can be done when there is a will and a vision,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tema, March 31, GNA – President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Thursday officially opened the brand-new state-of-the-art Nissan vehicle assembly plant in the Tema Industrial enclave, near Accra. The nine-million-Dollar 5000 Square meter plant, a partnership between Japan Motors Ghana, and Nissan Africa, will assemble Nissan\u2019s hardy Navara pick-up truck for the Ghanaian and West African […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1041383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[2786,5467,6926,1668,275,6953,2450],"class_list":["post-1041382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-assembly","tag-commissions","tag-nissan","tag-plant","tag-president","tag-stateoftheart","tag-tema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}