The intercity CTS will "expand in the sub-region of West Africa"

Company News from Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Source: Myjoyonline.com

2019-02-12

The director of Intercity Transport Company (ISTC), Nana Akomea, said plans had been made to expand her team's operations in Nigeria and other African countries.

He added that the bus company was already going to Togo, Benin and Ivory Coast and would launch into the transport market in Nigeria.

Nana Akomea informed the Special Parliamentary Committee on Transport during a working visit to the company's headquarters in Accra.

The visit aimed to gather first-hand information about the company, its challenges and to become familiar with its activities.

The committee visited the company's facilities and witnessed the commissioning of the ISTC Driving School by Mr. Kweku Ofori Asiamah, Minister of Transport, who was renovated with state-of-the-art equipment incorporating the latest conduct.

The Minister of Transport also inaugurated the new CIST car rental terminal, equipped with modern special purpose utility vehicles and pbadenger cars.

However, he said the company was in crisis and its leaders, management and motivated staff have redoubled their efforts to increase productivity and pay off some of the company's debts.

The general manager revealed that it was planned to create stations in Kasoa, Pokuase, Ashaiman; from the outskirts of Accra to expand the local market to reduce the burden on pbadengers to travel far from their place of residence to the main ISTC transport yard.

In addition to the Asafo terminal in Kumasi, in the Ashanti region, the company was in the process of creating substations at Kejetia and Sofoline, as well as in the Brong Ahafo, North, Haut East and West.

Nana Akomea said that to meet the expected demand, the company was buying 100 custom Daewoo coaches from China, at a cost of $ 17.5 million, to bring its bus fleet to 160 .

He said that since the company's four daily buses on the Accra-Kumasi axis, the ISTC was now making more than 20 trips to Kumasi, the country's most profitable route, since He had transferred his operations to Circle and Asafo, the most popular transportation hubs. in Accra and Kumasi respectively.

"My administration, with the support of the board of directors, is about to reposition the ISTC as the safest and most preferred means of road transportation," he said.

Mr. Samuel Ayeh-Paye, Member of Parliament of Ayensuano and Chairman of the Committee, congratulated the management for transforming the fate of the company.

He welcomed the decision to extend their services to the local and sub-regional markets, as there was economic potential in the targeted areas.

Mr. Ayeh-Paye, from the new coach fleet, urged the company's engineers to pay attention to the specifics of the specifications to ensure that the buses are delivered with their parts and adapted to the terrain. Ghanaian.

He also urged the company's management to "get closer to the committee" and to express their concerns about quick fixes so that the committee is aware of the company's plans and programs, so as to advocate on their behalf for the company. Bedroom.