Wesgro – the Western Cape’s official destination marketing, investment and trade promotion agency – is focused on strengthening trade relations with Ghana through its trade mission visit this week, said the organisation’s CEO Tim Harris.
A delegation of 25 companies from the province’s services sector and creative industries accompanied Wesgro on a trade mission to Accra, Ghana, this week which concludes on Friday.
“This mission forms part of our efforts to increase trade between the Western Cape, and the rest of Africa. Our agency has strong ties with the South Africa-Ghana Chamber of Commerce and they have invited us to take a group of Western Cape companies on a trade mission to explore business opportunities in Ghana.”
According to Harris, Ghana is one of the priority markets in terms of Wesgro’s West African Trade Corridor Programme.
He said that exports to Ghana from the Western Cape had grown from R40 million in 1999 to R606 million in 2013.
“This mission will go a long way to strengthen business ties between Ghana and the Western Cape. Ghana is a relatively easy market for Western Cape companies given the fact that English is the language of business, and their political system helps to create stability and predictability,” Harris said.
Western Cape targets Ghana for export growth
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