Parliament approves $339m for Accra-Tema motorway project.

Parliament has approved a concessionary contract of $338.89 million between Ghana and ATEP, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund (GIIF), for the redevelopment and expansion of the Accra-Tema Motorway._ The project is made up of the 19.5km Accra-Tema Motorway redevelopment, which is a segment of the National Road One (N1); 5.7 km portion of the George Bush Highway, and a portion of the Nsawam road (N6) linking the N1 from the Neoplan interchange to Apenkwa, covering 2.5 km. The project also comes with the operation and maintenance of the road, including the installation of a road toll system on certain sections. The project is part of the international transit corridors in the West African sub-region, which will serve as a link between Accra and the Tema Port, and to the northern part of the country and the landlocked Sahel regions of West Africa. The project seeks to address bottlenecks that cause traffic congestion that has plagued the corridor in recent years.