How T0 Get Kantanka Vehicles To The Ghanaian Market
William Awuku
Executive Vice President at Africa Entrepreneurship & Investment Advisors Limited
After a meeting with a confidant and an analysis of what to do to help Ghanaian businesses come to market with their products and services, we came up with a plan that can be exploited by Kantanka vehicles.
Partnering for growth and profit
Kantanka must partner Uber in Ghana, produce small cars whose fuel consumption matches the small cars Uber investors are encouraged to buy from Korea, produce about 10,000 units per annum for Uber in Ghana and elsewhere in Africa with the option to increase output as and where necessary. In less than 5 years, annual demand could top 100,000 units as Uber expands operations in Africa.
The added advantage for Kantanka is that its other modules will be subject for further investigation by would be patrons of their vehicles if the cars used for Uber operations prove to be excellent on our Africa roads.
I would be happy to share other views on how Kantanka can source funds for mass production but let us get the market sorted out first. Let each and each of us look critically at what they can contribute to start manufacturing in Ghana and believe me you don’t need a perfect idea, just an idea which others can refine at a later date. That is the way to create jobs for the unemployed youth.
Don’ hesitate to contribute, criticize or modify any of the above as the aim is to get Kantanka to go into commercial production this year and employ some Ghanaians
Credit Operations Officer
6 年Excellent excellent!! but just as Micheal said, cost of production is all that matters. manual production def will cost high and will the govt put in that much for the CNC machines? why previous govt not taken keen interest in partnering apostle Sarfo for the mass production. BIG QUESTION TO BE ANSWERED
CEO / Technologist at Hi-N-Low Technology Limited
6 年This's a good starting point, but with economics of scales kicking in, one cannot manufacture a car in units using manual machines, manpower and conventional technologies (which will cost ￡100,000s) as compared to the advanced manufacturing a car on a production line using CNC machines and latest technologies (which will cost ￡10,000s). This is just the cost factor. Again we have to take into account factors of new innovations on the market, quality controls, tested and proven and certified, precision of mating parts manufactured etc etc... Which one will you buy? Manually machines manufactured car @￡100k or CNC machines manufactured car @￡10k Clearly we've to approach the whole issue from another angle and differrent reality points of views. Not just make, but make with technologies. As proven by the Chinese, adopt science and technology in particularly CNC Machinetool technology as enabler and copy the the developed world and mass produce goods at relatively cheaper prices, flood global markets and create employment for citizens. Hey it's cool Africans can do it...
Health, Safety and Environmental Advisor
6 年Brilliant idea ?? William Awuku it'd be great to see this put into action soon enough.
Social Entrepreneurship professional
6 年The government buys a lot vehicles every financial year. Ghanaian government can be persuaded to allocate a certain budget to buy from Kantanka and promote local manufacturing.
MW Transmission/Fiber optic Implementation Engineer
6 年Good idea.... That's the right direction we must go