Transportation

The transport sector is made up of mainly of road transport, maritime and water transport, civil aviation and rail. Road transport is the major carrier of Ghana's land transport system, currently taking up about 98% of freight and 95% of passenger traffic.

Most major international carriers fly regularly to Kotoka International Airport (KIA) in Accra, the main entry point to Ghana by air. This is the result of Ghana's open skies policy, which frees an air space regulator from the constraints on capacity, frequency, route, structure and other air operational restrictions. Domestic and sub-regional air transport services have blossomed in the last two years and there is heavy competition in this lucrative sector.

Plans are far advanced to privatize the state-owned Ghana Railways Corporation (GRC) through concession and to provide much greater capacity for rail haulage of containers and petroleum products. Government also has plans of linking the suburbs of Accra to the central business area by rail and also linking the north to the south to serve the landlocked countries north of Ghana.