{
  "id": 4625192,
  "title": "Gov’t to develop 150-acre air cargo hub at Tamale Airport",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/govt-to-develop-150-acre-air-cargo-hub-at-tamale-airport",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-31T09:49:38.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Adom Online",
    "slug": "adom-online",
    "url": "https://www.adomonline.com/govt-to-develop-150-acre-air-cargo-hub-at-tamale-airport/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Ghanaian government plans to construct a 150-acre air cargo hub at Tamale International Airport to streamline the export of high-value agricultural products from northern Ghana. National Coordinator Goosie Tanoh announced the initiative at the inauguration of Northshore Apparel Ghana Limited, a garment factory funded by the Ghana Export-Import Bank and Germany's KfW Development Bank. The air cargo hub will serve as a dedicated logistics platform for transporting northern Ghana's agricultural goods directly to international markets. Tanoh emphasized that the project aligns with a broader strategy to create an integrated production and export system connecting agriculture, manufacturing, energy, and logistics in northern Ghana. The government is also developing a 120,000-hectare agriculture corridor along the White Volta, aimed at supporting commercial-scale production of various crops and an integrated poultry industry. Additionally, the government is investing in affordable and reliable energy, including a proposed 1.5-gigawatt solar power plant. Tanoh stressed that these projects represent interconnected components of a single, unified production system designed to drive productivity, increase production, create jobs, and promote inclusive economic growth across Ghana.",
  "summary": "Government is set to develop an approximately 150-acre air cargo hub at the Tamale International Airport to facilitate the export of vegetables, fruits and other high-value agricultural produce from northern Ghana to international markets. National Coordinator of the 24-Hour Economy Secretariat, Goosie Tanoh, who announced the plan, said the project forms part of a broader […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}