NIGERIAN SERVICE PROVIDERS RELOCATE TO TWIN-CITY (PAGE 29)

Many service providers in the oil industry from Nigeria have started relocating to the Western regional capital, Sekondi/Takoradi, to take advantage of the expected oil boom in the country.
According to them, many of them are eager to relocate due to the peace, stability and honesty of their Ghanaian partners.
The latest to arrive in the city is the Tarkwa Marine Services, which specialises in providing professional support such as ship management and operations, port and facility management, world-wide ship deliveries, condition and valuation survey, cargo handling supervision and heavy lift handling.
The Manager of the Tarkwa Marine Services, Mr Hans Schamid, said ship management and service provision to the companies working at the oil fields was a critical combination of both technical and crew management skills which they were ready to offer.
He said the company and its sister company in Nigeria, AMS-BP, would apply their proven expertise in partnership to ensure that the needed services were provided to their clients.
He told the Daily Graphic after they had taken delivery of safety and diving equipment for one of the companies engaged in oil exploration and drilling at the Jubilee Oil Fields that there were other areas in the country they would be exploring to ensure that they expanded their services to take advantage of the country’s oil discovery and added that the country stood to gain as they would be employing local people in their business activities.
Mr Schamid said many more people would be relocating to the country due to its stability. Besides, he said, many investors were willing to do honest business in more unexplored areas.
As a guarantee that they will provide good and efficient services for companies in the oil business, the company will soon take delivery of six other supply vessels from Germany to be positioned at the Takoradi Port in readiness for the booming supply business.
The manager said they were not trying to move everything in Nigeria to Ghana but were making inroads in the country.