{"id":225546,"date":"2026-02-28T01:18:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-giff-calls-for-urgent-review-of-transit-policy-after-truck-interception\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T01:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:18:25","slug":"ghana-giff-calls-for-urgent-review-of-transit-policy-after-truck-interception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-giff-calls-for-urgent-review-of-transit-policy-after-truck-interception\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: GIFF Calls for Urgent Review of Transit Policy . .After Truck Interception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The Ghana Institute of Freight Forwarders (GIFF) has urged the Finance Minister to undertake an urgent, evidence-based review of recent transit policy measures following a high-profile enforcement episode linked to Bill of Entry (BOE) 80226125039.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">The call comes in the wake of the interception of 18 articulated trucks declared as transit cargo bound for Niger, an incident that has sparked debate within Ghana&#8217;s trade and customs sector and renewed calls for policy review and structured stakeholder&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602270841.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 Ghana Institute of Freight Forwarders (GIFF) has urged the Finance Minister to undertake an urgent, evidence-based review of recent transit policy measures following a high-profile enforcement episode linked to Bill of Entry (BOE) 80226125039. The call comes in the wake of the interception of 18 articulated trucks declared as transit cargo bound for Niger, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":225547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,6193,6137,4508,4509,33782,53780,257,6470,6399,254,15067,7744,11318],"class_list":["post-225546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-after","tag-calls","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-giff","tag-interception","tag-news","tag-policy","tag-review","tag-south-africa-today","tag-transit","tag-truck","tag-urgent"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/225546","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=225546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}