Ghana’s automotive business has acquired a serious enhance with the commissioning of an extremely fashionable showroom by Japan Motors Buying and selling Firm Ltd. (JMTC) in Tema for its Foton automobile vary.
The commissioning, which was held on Tuesday introduced collectively stakeholders within the development and transport business.
The brand new facility, positioned close to the Tema Roundabout, is designed to boost gross sales and after-sales help for each heavy-duty and light-duty Foton vans, a model solely distributed by Japan Motors.
The all new Foton Vary of automobiles together with: Foton Aumark S 8 Tons, Aumark S 6 Tons, Aumark E 4 Tons, Miler 2.5 Tons Single & Double Cabin Vehicles, Truck Mate 2 Tons Single & Double Cabin Vehicles, View CS2 16 Seater Buses, Tunland 4×4 Double Cabin Choose UPS, AUV 29 Seater Buses, EST-M 14 Tons Vehicles, GTL-AMT Tractor Heads and GTL-E Auman Tipper Vehicles had been launched on the occasion.
Welcoming visitors, Managing Director of Japan Motors, Mr. Salem Kalmoni, described the launch as one other milestone within the firm’s longstanding contribution to Ghana’s financial growth, industrial progress, and transport infrastructure.
“As you might be conscious, Japan motors has been providing Foton business automobiles, vans and buses for the previous 18 years and this model has confirmed itself as a dependable workhorse for companies throughout the nation. “This showroom places us in nearer proximity to our prospects, permitting us to serve them higher and extra effectively.”
Mr. Kalmoni reiterated that the corporate’s dedication goes past simply gross sales and after gross sales of automobiles however was proud to announce that six totally different Foton fashions ar had been presently being assembled regionally in Tema, highlighting the corporate’s dedication to Ghana’s industrialization agenda .
“Ghana has the potential of changing into a regional hub for regionally assembled automobiles and manufacturing and we hope that with the precise coverage help from Authorities, along with companions like Foton Worldwide, we will make these automobiles extra reasonably priced for Ghanaians whereas creating jobs, enhancing expertise growth, and stimulating broad-based financial progress,” Mr. Kalmoni added.
Japan Motors, he knowledgeable has additionally acquired a 7-acre plot behind the brand new showroom, earmarked for the development of a central spare components warehouse and a truck workshop to serve each Ghana and the broader West African market.
Mr. Danny Li, Vice President of Foton Worldwide, emphasised the model’s progress and strategic dedication to Africa.
“Foton has develop into one of many largest automobile producers in China, recording over 300% year-on-year progress in Africa. Along with Japan Motors, we’re dedicated to delivering high-quality, regionally assembled automobiles made in Ghana, for Ghana,” he acknowledged.
Addressing the gathering, Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare, Minister for Commerce, Trade and Agribusiness, lauded the initiative as a pivotal growth within the nation’s automotive business.
“This commissioning isn’t just a win for Japan Motors, however for Ghana’s ambition to develop into an automotive hub in West Africa,” she famous. “Foton’s registration below the Ghana Automotive Improvement Programme and their plans for electrical automobiles are clear indicators of the model’s alignment with our nationwide imaginative and prescient.”
She disclosed that the Ministry was finalizing the electrical automobile element of Ghana’s automotive growth coverage framework, aiming to draw extra funding into the e-mobility sector.
Moreover, the Authorities, by the Ghana Requirements Authority, will quickly implement laws governing used and salvage automobiles to guard shoppers and guarantee high quality management.
The Minister known as on Ghanaians to embrace made-in-Ghana automobiles and help insurance policies that concentrate on long-term industrial progress, job creation, and technological development.
BY TIMES REPORTER
