- Deals and investment opportunities agreed during President
Mahama's visit are worth £215 million
- New partnerships will create British jobs in engineering,
financial services, education and healthcare
- UK and Ghana mark five years of their Trade Partnership
Agreement, with bilateral trade now worth around £1.6 billion
New trade and investment opportunities for British workers and
businesses in one of Africa's fastest growing economies are to be
delivered as the UK and Ghana hail the launch of a new UK-Ghana
Growth Partnership, during a visit to London from Ghana's
President John Dramani Mahama.
The deals, signed at the Ghana-UK Investment Summit in
London and overseen by Deputy Prime Minister and President Mahama, total
£215 million. They span sectors where British firms have
competitive strength, including maritime engineering,
infrastructure finance, education exports and specialist
healthcare training.
UK firms will benefit from new openings across four key areas. A
£5 million Green Project Preparation Facility, hosted by FSD
Africa in partnership with the Ghana Infrastructure Investment
Fund, is designed to unlock further infrastructure deals over
three years - with explicit support for UK companies.
New Transnational Education guidelines are creating fresh
opportunities for UK education providers. A new partnership to
help implement the Ghana AI Strategy, as part of a wider
programme of new Science and Technology collaboration, is backed
by £6 million of UK investment, which aims to help Ghanaian
institutions unlock the benefits of AI, drive collaboration
between UK and Ghanaian universities, and foster greater
prosperity in the years to come.
A further £4 million, five‑year export partnership between UK
training provider Eastwood Park and Ghana‑based Mangel Klicks,
will deliver specialist clinical engineering training, creating
opportunities for UK expertise in high‑value services while
strengthening healthcare skills in Ghana and the wider region.
The Partnership also backs a £101 million ($137m) project to
build West Africa's first commercial-scale ship repair and
dry-docking facility at the Port of Takoradi. The UK-co-owned
Private Infrastructure Development Group has joined an investor
consortium to support the Takoradi Floating Dock Project in
Ghana, also known as Project Shiprite. Delivered in partnership
with the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, it will create up to
430 direct jobs and strengthen a regional maritime hub that UK
shipping and logistics firms already rely on. Glasgow-based
Interocean Marine Services is set to be the project's operations
and maintenance contractor.
Deputy Prime Minister, , commented:
“The relationship between the UK and Ghana is historic and
today we are building an even stronger future. The
new Ghana-UK Growth Partnership will back jobs,
attract investment and boost the economies of both our
countries.
“Growth is a core mission of this Government, and we are
delivering on that alongside our friends in
Ghana. From AI to green tech to maritime innovations,
these new investments will help businesses thrive and
create more opportunities for people in both the UK and
Ghana.”
, Minister for Africa and
International Development, said:
"The UK–Ghana Growth Partnership is what a modern
partnership looks like – practical, focussed on delivery, and
built on mutual benefit. It is about creating the right
conditions for UK and Ghanaian businesses to invest, for jobs to
be created in both countries, and for both our economies to
grow."
The UK and Ghana are marking five years of the UK–Ghana Trade
Partnership Agreement. Since the Agreement entered into force,
bilateral trade has grown to around £1.6 billion - an increase of
12.5% since 2024. It also builds on the strong investment
pipeline established by British International Investment, whose
development finance investment into Ghana stands at approximately
£140m, including Maa Grace, a UK-Ghanaian export-focused garments
business backed through Growth Investment Partners Ghana.
The Growth Partnership sets out a shared framework for 2026 to
2028 across four priority areas: mobilising private investment;
improving trade facilitation; supporting infrastructure and
industrial growth; and expanding skills and education
partnerships.
