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Africa’s deepest liquid bulk terminal receives commercial tanker vessel
The maiden commercial tanker vessel, GH PARKS, arrived to discharge cargo at West Africa’s deepest and new ultra-modern liquid bulk terminal (LBT) at Takoradi Port
The maiden commercial tanker vessel, GH PARKS, arrived to discharge cargo at West Africa’s deepest and new ultra-modern liquid bulk terminal (LBT) at Takoradi Port.
The cargo operation would signal the formal commencement of commercial operations at the new state-of-the-art terminal.
A statement from the Public Relations Department of the Takoradi Port, said as part of regulatory requirements and industry best practice, the arrival of this GH PARKS tanker vessel was preceded by the arrival of the LISSE tanker vessel for technical-testing operations, on Sunday 27th June 2021.
It noted that technical-testing operation involved the discharge of 2000 metric tons of liquid bulk cargo, for the all-important technical operation of testing the Terminal’s pipelines’ integrity under conditions of high/low pressures of actual cargo discharge operation.
The vessel which arrived at 0830hrs GMT on Friday 6th August 2021, at the Port’s Anchorage, went through a screening process by the Port Health as well as for regulatory sampling and clearance by the National Petroleum Authority (NPA).
