If you want to do business in Ghana, the West African nation’s drivers would welcome pre-inspected quality used vehicles, preferably with a high ground clearance, plus quality aftermarket repair parts at bargain price points.
In 2015, Japan imported $535 million worth of auto parts from the U.S. while its exports totaled nearly $45 billion. Most of that parts trade was original equipment parts used on production vehicles.
Samuel Kwasi Sackey is vice president of ECL, which provides vehicle testing services for Ghana’s government-mandated inspection program that was established in 2014.
Exhibition space for ACMA Automechanika New Delhi in March 2017 has increased substantially with participation from many newcomers and industry leaders expected in 2017.
New vehicle sales are expected to reach nearly 90 million units globally this year, according to IHS Markit, and global vehicles in operation will exceed nearly 1.4 billion vehicles by 2021, with two billion vehicles in operation expected by 2040.
A record-setting 4,820 exhibitors from 76 nations were manning booths at the 24th edition of the Automechanika Frankfurt exposition in Germany. Some 136,000 industry attendees from 170 countries passed through the turnstiles.
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