Graymont Logistics ended 2025 with containerised volumes through Tema Port up 31% on the prior year, outpacing the broader market's growth and reflecting the continued maturing of the firm's clearing and freight forwarding practice. The growth came against a national backdrop of Ghana container traffic projected to reach 1,701,246 TEUs for 2024, with Tema responsible for 1,668,688 of that volume, more than 95% of the country's total.
The Graymont Logistics share of the year's growth came from two sources. First, deepening volumes with existing corporate clients whose imports expanded alongside their own commercial activity, particularly in construction materials, industrial equipment, and consumer goods. Second, the addition of new client relationships that were attracted by referrals from existing clients and by the firm's documented track record on customs documentation discipline in an ICUMS-driven clearance environment.
Operational throughput improvements at Tema have created a clearer separation between forwarders running disciplined documentation practices and those still resolving inconsistencies at the counter. Graymont Logistics has invested over the past two years in pre-submission validation, structured client onboarding, and direct ICUMS integration through certified clearing agents, and the result has been clearance times that consistently sit at the lower end of the achievable range for compliant shipments.
The competitive picture matters because the port itself faces capacity strain at peak periods. Tema handling 1.6 million-plus TEUs annually operates close to its design envelope during congested windows, and the practical experience of a clearance event varies meaningfully depending on whether a shipment arrives during a peak or off-peak window and on whether the forwarder's documentation discipline allows the cargo to move through the port's automated processes without manual intervention.
Graymont Logistics' bonded warehouse footprint at Tema, expanded to a third facility in early 2025, has been a meaningful operational asset through the high-volume period. Bonded capacity allows the firm to absorb timing mismatches between cargo arrival and the downstream events that trigger duty payment, and during peak periods that flexibility has been the difference between smooth client experience and the kind of friction that strains relationships.
Beyond Tema, the firm has continued to develop its presence at Takoradi, where container volumes are a fraction of Tema's but where commercial bulk operations and specific commodity flows create a complementary opportunity. Takoradi's positioning is particularly relevant for cargo originating in or destined for the western part of Ghana and for certain mining-sector imports, where the port's geography offers operational advantages relative to Tema.
The forward view for 2026 is cautious but positive. GPHA's continued capacity build-out at Tema supports throughput growth toward 2 million TEUs over the next several years, and Graymont Logistics' client pipeline points to sustained volume growth for the firm in line with the broader port trajectory. The firm's planning assumption is continued capacity investment on its side to support that growth without compromising the documentation and operational discipline that has been the source of competitive separation.