Dredge Masters Ltd, a wholly-owned Ghanaian company specialised in providing marine engineering solutions has called on potential clients, be it public or private enterprises to look no further than them for contracts.
According to executives from Dredge Masters Ltd, the company has the requisite professional competencies and machinery, comparable to the best engineering firms in the world, at their disposal.
Managing Director, Capt. Ansar Ahmed Khan and Operations Manager, Sena Kofi Adiepena of Dredge Masters made these assertions on the Eye on Port program.
This interaction came on the back of the President of Ghana Nana Akufo Addo’s commissioning of two IHC Beaver 50 Dredgers the company acquired to augment capacity. This is first time a wholly Ghanaian-owned company has acquired such state of the art dredging equipment.
This adds to a combined fleet of equipment worth 54M Euros at the disposal of the company, positioning them to undertake massive marine engineering projects.
According to them, this milestone births a new age of local companies venturing into areas of development that hitherto was ceded to foreigners.
Thus, the executives from Dredge Masters called for equal consideration to be given to local companies whenever the search for dredging and other related engineering solutions come up.
The Operations Manager, Sena Kofi Adiepena, hinted that “perhaps a local content policy should be activated that would see to it that local companies with the capacity will be fairly considered when a lot of these dredging contracts are being given out.”
According to him, this would not only encourage increased local investment in that sector, but would ensure that profits gained remain in Ghana.
Capt. Khan, the Managing Director for Dredge Masters, said not only does the company boast of world class equipment and professionals, but will deliver cost and time-efficient execution of projects.
Touching on port infrastructure developments, he said, “now ports do not have to wait for foreign companies to come at a very high cost. Now, we have our own equipment and our own professionals, at a lower cost and also immediate availability.”
He said the company’s equipment enables Dredge Masters to undertake dredging up to 16m depth, which is the global industry standard.
Mr. Adiepena revealed that Dredge Masters were contracted to dredge the Freeport of Monrovia in Liberia, to allow for bigger vessels and that has enriched the experience of the company.
Similarly, the company has been engaging coastal protection project in the Ningo-Prampram area, as well as flood management projects in the Odaw Basin, and White Volta Tributaries.
Also, the company has been engaged to undertake dredging activities for Ghana Water Company’s sub stations across the nation. Dredge Masters also undertook support activities for the oil and gas sector in Ghana.