About Us
The Company
Turner Marine Limited is a Ghanaian registered company that is engaged in the provision of marine logistics and support services, upstream oil and gas services and procurement services. The company was incorporated in December 2019 and issued with a certificate of incorporation no. CS 27374209 and a certificate to commence business dated 27th December
2019. Turner Marine entered the Sierra Leonean market to explore opportunities in shipping and mining in August 2021. With a focus on shipping and mining, Turner Marine engaged the Sierra Leone National Shipping Company Limited (SLNSC) in a series of business development initiatives. In December 2021, SLNSC forwarded an enquiry from bauxite miner, VIMETCO to Turner Marine. Turner Marine undertook detailed assessment of VIMETCO’s Nitti Port infrastructure and stock stacking stations, the navigational corridor from Nitti Port to the sea and the offshore sea areas
The Business
VIMETCO is a globally integrated aluminium Group that is mining bauxite in Sierra Leone through its subsidiary, Sierra Mineral Holdings 1 Limited (SMHL). The bauxite is shipped from Nitti Port located on the Shebra river, about 45 nautical miles from the coast. Due to the limited draft on theriver and the unavailability of transhipment facilities offshore, SMHL has been using barges and vessels of maximum
55,000 MTS DWT to ship bauxite from Nitti port. This
makes bauxite from SMHL generally uncompetitive. Commodities trader Asia Energy International Corporation (AEIC) and its offtaker Shandong Zhitian Supply Chain Management Company (SZSCMC) contacted SLNSC/ Turner Marine and based on a collaborative agreement between SLNSC and Turner Marine, Turner Marine made an offer which has been accepted by Vitmetco SHML.
A total of about 368,000 MTS of bauxite were successfully transshipped by Turner Marine between June and July 2022.
Additional projected are expected in the last quarter of the year after the rainy season in Sierra Leone
Principals
Baffour Akoto Osei (MGhIE) – Project & Operational Expertise
Baffour is a Chartered Civil Engineer and Project Manager with over 25 years’ experience in heavy civil engineering construction and consultancy in UK and in Ghana. He worked for 4years in Ghana on construction projects including airport expansion, thermal power station, building structures, tailings dam, mining and bulk earthworks. After a Master’s degree and subsequent chartership with the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK) in 2002, he worked in UK and rose to become a Consultant Engineer and Project Manager. Some of the projects he worked on included the Havengore bascule bridge refurbishment, the HSBC Canary Wharf construction cofferdam, the Woolich Arsenal Station and the Cowley Peachy Marina.
In 2007, he moved to Ghana and started a building and a civil engineering construction and infrastructure design company. To date, he has built up 4 companies that have business in construction, infrastructure design and shipping and marine logistics. Projects he has led nclude the petroleum jetty for Bluefone Energy, the Funko petroleum services port for oil and gas exploration, the design of various buildings and bridges, development of real estate houses on about 210 acres of land, proposal designs for the Accra City Rail project, the construction of 16km Busunya cocoa haulage roads and numerous other projects. In 2019, entered into a partnership with Martechnic Navigation of Greece and subsequently with the Tsakos Group Limited. He has undertaken training at the Baltic index and has spearheaded our growth into the shipping and marine engineering sector. Baffour is providing strategic leadership and will spearhead the delivery of the services in Sierra Leone.
Mike Koampah (MBA, CISA,CISM) – Executive Director with Strategic & Technical Expertise
Michael is a Certified ICT expert, Project Manager and Entrepreneur with about 28 years of experience of which 26 years had been dedicated to the management and provision of mining operational support and over 15 years in management positions. He holds a BSc Computer Science from KNUST Ghana and an MBA MIS from Leicester University UK. Until recently he was the Group ICT Manager for Golden Star Resources (GSR) supporting the Bogoso/Prestea mine, Wassa mine and the Exploration company.
He was responsible for the management of GSR Ghana’s ICT resources ensuring operational resources are in place to meet production and support objectives against approved corporate policy and strategic plans and compliance
He project managed the installation and implementation of ICT systems across all mining
and exploration sites worth millions of dollars like the underlisted
- VSAT links, Leaky feeder systems, Two-way Radio communication systems, Microwave radio systems, OPGW and other fibre networks, Local and Wide Area Networks , Collison
Avoidance systems, Mining software , Exploration and Geologicals systems, Physical and Virtual Servers, Firewalls,, Routers, ERP and others software to support mining operations In 2016 he received:
• The Golden Star Global Chairman of the Board of Directors award in recognition of
his contribution to GoldenStar’s ICT services over the years.
Michael brings on board the wealth of experience acquired over the years in mining operations and management to support our operations
Captain Christopher Coleman (Chief Mariner) – Technical Director /Transhipment Terminal Master
Master Mariner - CHRISTOPHER COLEMAN, 10+ years of experience with Oldendorf from 2nd Officer to Master and Mines Manager on transhipment projects.
Captain Theophilus Thompson (Chief Mariner) – Transhipment Terminal Master
Master Mariner - THEOPHILUS ALEX THOMPSON, 8+ years of experience with Oldendorf in transhipment.
Contact Us
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We work in close collaboration with our customers.
TurnerMarine Ltd
Contact Address: P. O. Box KN 3236 Kaneshie – Accra, Ghana Phone: +233 242189938 / +232 75015059 Email : info@turnermarine.net Head Office: 7 Forest Lane Off ACP Estate Road Pokuase - Accra Sierra Leone Subsidiary: Turner Marine (SL) Limited
