The Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization, Kitack Lim has paid a three-day working visit to Ghana.

Kitack Lim, who has served as Secretary-General of the IMO since 2016, said he has always wished to visit Ghana. He was met on arrival at the Kotoka International Airport by the deputy ministers of Transport, Hon. Titus Glover and the IMO West and Central Africa representative, Captain Dallas Laryeah.

The three-day visit saw the IMO chief paying courtesy calls on the Minister of Transport, the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, the Tema port, and the Regional Maritime University. A dinner was held in his honor by the Women in Trade and Shipping, Africa (WISTA) where H.E Kitack Lim addressed the delegates from all over the continent.

The Secretary-General was full of praise for Ghana as he observed that ‘Ghana has maintained a clean sheet and has become a leader in the maritime industry in Africa’. He further charged Ghana to peer-mentor neighboring nations to address bottlenecks hampering the development in other countries.

Speaking a maritime stakeholder forum, the Director-General of the Ghana Maritime Authority, Mr. Thomas Kofi Alonsi reiterated the Authority’s quest to become the best on the continent.

An impressive artifact and a smock were presented to the secretary-general by the Authority.