ECG Containers: About 2,000 Cleared From Port, Some Still Unidentified As Final Report Is Expected By End Of October

Deputy Minister for Energy and Green Transition, Hon. Richard Gyan-Mensah, has told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that about 2,000 of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) containers stuck at the port have been evacuated, with about 280 still outstanding.

Speaking at the PAC hearing on the 2025 Auditor-General’s Reports, the Deputy Minister, who is also the Member of Parliament for Gomoa West, said the matter was referred to the Ministry of Energy and is being handled by a committee he chairs.

He explained that the evacuated containers have been kept with the Ministry of Energy and at ECG warehouses, while about 283 remain unidentified within the port vicinity.

> “About 2,000 of the containers have been evacuated and kept with the Ministry of Energy and some with ECG warehouse. We still have some few, about 283, that are unidentified,” he said.

Hon. Gyan-Mensah said out of the initial 2,626 containers being retrieved, about 280 are still outstanding. He added that no official communication has yet been issued on the completion of the assignment.

> “There hasn’t been any official communication on the official report of the completion of the assignment. We are yet to come out officially on that,” he said.

He told the Committee that the evacuation exercise started rigorously, with not less than 50 containers evacuated a day, but later slowed to sometimes two a day, and at one point none in a whole week.

He attributed the slowdown to the fact that the containers are not at a single location but are spread across different terminals, and that the team did not have all the container numbers for those assumed to be uncleared.

> “It hasn’t been an easy task. It has to do with a bit of port documentation, a bit of customs documentation,” he said.

The committee working on the retrieval includes the Port Security Agency, ECG, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA).

Hon. Gyan-Mensah said the committee meets every Monday to review its work and strategies, and it is expected to issue an official report by the end of this month on the outstanding containers and the next approach to retrieve them.

> “We have assumed that by the end of this month, officially we will come out with a report so that those that are still outstanding, then we see the next approach to take to be able to redeem them,” he said.