The Government of Ghana has welcomed the desire of Marubeni Corporation, a Japanese business conglomerate to operate as an independent power supplier.
This would help shore up electricity supply across the country.
Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur on Thursday gave the assurance that the Government would expand the framework for �that kind of business� and encourage more companies.
�We will encourage some more companies to improve the quality of powers supply,� the Vice President said, at the Flagstaff House in Accra, when a business and investment delegation, from the Corporation, led by Mr. Naoto Nikai, the Japanese Ambassador to Ghana paid a courtesy call on him.
The delegation, on a three-day working visit to Ghana, and had since held discussions with the Ministries of Finance and Trade and Industry, and would soon hold discussion with the Ministry of Energy as well as business networking session with Ghanaian business persons.
Marubeni is involved in the handling of products and provision of services in a broad range of sectors. These areas encompass importing and exporting, as well as transactions in the Japanese market, related to food materials, food products, textiles, materials, pulp and paper, chemicals, energy, metals and mineral resources, transportation, machinery and offshore trading.
The Company's activities also extend to power projects and infrastructure, plants and industrial machinery, finance, logistics and information industry, and real estate development and construction.
Additionally, Marubeni conducts business investment, development and management on a global level.
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