{"id":181526,"date":"2024-09-29T17:52:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T15:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-cocoa-freight-rates-to-increase-by-5-percent-for-2024-2025-season\/"},"modified":"2024-09-29T17:52:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T15:52:53","slug":"ghanas-cocoa-freight-rates-to-increase-by-5-percent-for-2024-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-cocoa-freight-rates-to-increase-by-5-percent-for-2024-2025-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s Cocoa Freight Rates to Increase By 5 Percent for 2024\/2025 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The Cocoa Marketing Company (CMC), Ghana Shippers&#8217; Authority (GSA) and 17 shipping lines have agreed to a 5% increment in basic freight rate for the 2024\/2025 cocoa season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The new rates, set to take effect on October 1, 2024, reflect the ongoing challenges in the global shipping industry while maintaining Ghana&#8217;s competitiveness in the cocoa market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Furthermore, prices for desiccants and other materials used in shipment will remain stable throughout the 2024\/2025 season, providing certainty in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409190615.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cocoa Marketing Company (CMC), Ghana Shippers&#8217; Authority (GSA) and 17 shipping lines have agreed to a 5% increment in basic freight rate for the 2024\/2025 cocoa season. The new rates, set to take effect on October 1, 2024, reflect the ongoing challenges in the global shipping industry while maintaining Ghana&#8217;s competitiveness in the cocoa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":181527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,3029,16936,4509,8226,6721,257,6720,12850,8098,254],"class_list":["post-181526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cocoa","tag-freight","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-increase","tag-news","tag-percent","tag-rates","tag-season","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}