Editing Transport in Ghana (section)

=== Seaports and harbours ===
{{main|Takoradi Harbour|Tema Harbour}}
[[File:Tema Harbour, Greater Accra.jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[Container ship]]s and [[Merchant ship]]s being loaded and unloaded at the [[Intermodal freight transport]] of [[Tema Harbour|Tema Port]].]]
There are ports on the Atlantic Ocean at [[Takoradi]] and [[Tema]]. [[Tema Harbour|Tema Port]] in South Ghana, officially opened in 1962, is the bigger of the two seaports in Ghana, and is Africa's largest {{linktext|manmade}} harbour. It has a water-enclosed area of {{convert|1.7|km2|mi2}} and a total land area of {{convert|3.9|km2|mi2}}.<ref name="GPHA"/> Apart from handling goods for Ghana, it is also a traffic junction, where goods are transhipped, and transit cargo destined for the landlocked countries to the north of Ghana.<ref name="GPHA"/>

The port of Tema handles the majority of the nation's import and export cargo and most of the country's chief exports is shipped from Sekondi-Takoradi and Tema.<ref name="GPHA"/> The port of Tema has {{convert|5|km|mi}} of [[breakwaters]], 12 deepwater berths, an outsize [[oil tanker]] berth, a dockyard, warehouses, and transit sheds. The port has open and covered areas for the storage of cargo, including a 77,200-m<sup>2</sup> (7.72-hectare) paved area for the storage of containers, steel products and other conventional cargo.<ref name="GPHA"/> The port's container yard is capable of holding over 8,000 [[Twenty-foot equivalent unit|TEU]]s at any given time. The closed storage area, which is about 25,049 m<sup>2</sup> (2.51 hectares) in area, consists of six sheds with a total storage capacity of 50,000 tonnes of cargo. The port also includes a 100,000 [[Deadweight tonnage|dwt]] dry dock and slipway facility.<ref name="GPHA">[http://www.ghanaports.gov.gh/GPHA/tema/index.html Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304053635/http://www.ghanaports.gov.gh/GPHA/tema/index.html |date=2009-03-04 }}. ghanaports.gov.gh. Retrieved 1 January 2012.</ref> The Tema and [[Takoradi Harbour|Takoradi harbours]] in South Ghana are operated by the [[Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority]].
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