The Burkina Faso Chamber of Commence is to construct offices and warehouses in Ghana for the storage of transit cargo meant for Burkina Faso.

Mr Victor Kassoum Fofana, Representative of the Chamber, who disclosed this to the Ghana News Agency on Tuesday, said the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) had allocated plots of land at the Tema Port for the project.

He said the Chamber had been allocated 5,000 square metres each for the construction of two warehouses, an office complex and a fence wall.

Mr Fofana said the project would be completed in two years. Mr Fofana could not immediately tell the cost of the project, but said a similar project that was undertaken in Cotonou in 1993 cost 600 million CFA.

He explained that the Burkina Faso Chamber had such facilities also at Abidjan, and Lome, and the aim was to make importers gain confidence at their transit ports, "to give them the assurance that their imported items are safe".

The GPHA currently provides one of the sheds at the Tema port for the storage of transit goods. Three inland countries, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger use the services of the Tema and Takoradi ports as their transit port.