Chairman of Ghana Link Network Services Limited (Ghana Link) Mr. Nick Danso Adjei has been adjudged Entrepreneur of the Year at the 5th edition of the Ghana Shippers Awards held in Accra.
The award is in recognition of Mr Adjei’s exemplary and visionary leadership to leverage technology in automating the processes to facilitate trade and increase revenue for national development as well as successfully leading his team at Ghana Link to steer the implementation of the trade facilitation tool the Integrated Customs Management Systems (ICUMS) in Ghana.
This is the second time that the Executive Chairman of Ghana Link has won a topmost award at the Ghana Shippers Awards.
Last year, Mr Adjei won the Personality of the Year Award for his exceptional leadership, vision, integrity and focus to continuously provide direction to deliver projects that directly impact on revenues and facilitate trade, while opening up Ghana for more trade and making the country the gate way to the West African sub-region when it comes to trade.
Reacting to the award, Mr Adjei Ghana Link thanked Ghana Shipper’s Authority for the recognition and the entire trade community especially the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and its Customs Division, freight forwarders, Importers and Exporters Association, shipping lines, Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), Meridian Port Services (MPS) and the entire business community for their acceptance and roles in the success of the implementation of ICUMS.
“I want to thank God for this award and recognition given me and this I must say is something that gives me and my team at Ghana Link and Nick Scan the urge to put in more efforts.
He added that Ghana Link Network Services Ltd was committed to improving the processes of the system to make it even more robust than it is today to help the Customs Division of the GRA to rake in more revenue for the nation’s development.
“Today the job we have done in Ghana with the help of our stakeholders is one that has not been seen in the sub-region and because of that, Gambia has contracted Ghana Link to deploy ICUMS in that country which should reduce the turnaround time at the port and increase the revenues generated.
Ghana Link has announced that it has begun deploying phase two of ICUMS like the E-Auction for Customs Division of GRA which aims to help the auctioning processes to be transparent and smooth.
In addition, the company is expected to work with authorities at Kotoka International Airport to deploy the Airport Passenger Information Systems (APIS).
