加纳总统 Mahama 先生下令要求所有航运公司收费项目必须经过议会批准，预计未来数月商品和服务价格将出现显著下降。

加纳进出口商协会对此表示支持，认为这项及时且必要的干预措施有助于缓解进口商品带来的通胀压力。该协会执行秘书 Samson Asaki Awingobit 先生表示，若该指令得到全面落实，将解决该国进出口体系中长期存在的瓶颈问题。

"若政府成功推动议会批准这些操作费用，并确保航运公司严格遵守法律，意味着重复收费现象将成为历史。" 他强调："这将提振商业信心，降低港口运营成本，最终惠及消费者，实现市场价格全面回落。"

该总统令于 2025 年 7 月 11 日周五在阿克拉总统府与加纳货运代理协会领导层会晤时颁布。

总统指出，此举旨在取缔航运公司未经批准的行政性收费，提升港口运营透明度。此前货运代理商多次投诉航运公司存在超额任意收费行为，包括对同一提单项下多个集装箱仍按单个集装箱收取美元计价的行政费用。

Mahama’s Directive to Regulate Port Charges May Ease Market Prices – Importers and Exporters

Prices of goods and services may witness significant reductions in the coming months following President Mahama’s directive to subject all shipping line charges to parliamentary approval.

This is the assertion of the Importers and Exporters Association of Ghana, which has welcomed the directive as a timely and much-needed intervention that may help reduce inflationary pressures associated with imports.

Speaking to Citi Business News, the Executive Secretary of the Association, Samson Asaki Awingobit, said the directive, if fully implemented, would address some longstanding bottlenecks in the country’s import and export system.

“If the government succeeds by getting parliament to approve these handling charges by getting the shipping lines to go strictly by the laws, what it means is that the number of duplicated charges will be a thing of the past,” he said.

He stressed that: “This will boost morale and reduce the cost of doing business at the ports and then, of course, large and by will also extend to the consumer, leading to total reduction of cost of goods in the market.”

The President’s directive was issued on Friday, July 11, 2025, during a meeting with the leadership of the Ghana Institute of Freight Forwarders (GIFF) at the Jubilee House in Accra.

President Mahama said the measure is intended to eliminate unapproved administrative charges imposed by shipping lines and to promote greater transparency in port operations.

His comments follow complaints from freight forwarders over what they described as excessive and arbitrary charges by shipping lines. Amongst the concerns is that some lines demand administrative fees in US dollars per container, even when multiple containers are covered by a single bill of lading.

来源：CITI NEWSROOM

文：by Emmanuel Oppong

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