During the visit to the Obetsebi- Lamptey interchange, President Akufo-Addo also inspected the Jamestown Fishing Harbor as part of his Greater Accra Regional tour on Tuesday, October 26, 2020.
The US$48 million dollar project is bankrolled by a Peoples’ Republic of China grant. The project involves revamping the old Jamestown Fishing Harbor enclave into a Fishing Port Complex with additional facilities.
The works being undertaken on the project include the renovation of an old breakwater and construction of a new section to a total length of about 500 meters; dredging of the harbor basin to depths up to 5 mm meters for inshore outboard-motorized boats and canoes.
There would be a boat repair workshop and shed, including mechanical repairs workshop area and cradle platforms.
There would also be a new day-care center with about 60 pupils capacity, for children of fisher folks, a cold store and mid-level fish processing facilities, including all the utilities services systems – water, electricity, parking, driveways and administration offices.
The Project’s physical works began with the construction of a temporary area, near the Korle outfall, westwards from the Jamestown Harbor site, to relocate all the Fisher folks into the temporary area.
Temporary works included earthworks, construction of a breakwater to protect canoes and prevent the influx of floating debris from the Odaw / Korle systems.
So far, the contractor has completed major site preparation works, set up temporary site offices, mobilized the requisite staff and equipment, demolished a substantial part of the fishing port area with concrete and foundation works ongoing.
The contractor indicated that the progress of work on the project as of September 30, 2020 was 15 per cent.