Industry The town's chief industrial products include aluminium, steel, processed fish, refined petroleum, textile, chemicals, food products, and cement. There is also a
free zone enclave in Tema.
Seaport Tema Port, which was opened in 1962, is the biggest of the two seaports in Ghana. In 2020 a $1.5 billion expansion project to increase container output to 3 million
TEU was completed. The port is currently one of the largest container ports in Africa. It has a water-enclosed area of and a total land area of . Apart from handling Ghanaian imports and exports, it is also a traffic junction, dealing with transit cargo destined for the landlocked countries of
Burkina Faso,
Mali and
Niger. The port of Tema handles 80% of Ghana's import and export cargo, including the country's chief export,
cacao. The port has of
breakwaters, 12 deepwater berths, an outsize
oil tanker berth, a dockyard, warehouses, and transit sheds. The port has open and covered areas for the storage of cargo, including a paved area for the storage of containers, steel products and other conventional cargo. The port's container yard is capable of holding over 8,000 TEUs at any given time. The closed storage area, which is about in area, consists of six sheds with a total storage capacity of 50,000 tonnes of cargo. The port also includes a 100,000
dwt dry dock and slipway facility. The harbour is operated by the
Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority.
Fishing harbor Ghana has a long history of fishing. The Tema fishing harbour is at the eastern end of the town's commercial harbour. It comprises the Inner Fishing Harbour, the
Canoe Basin, the Outer Fishing Harbour, and a commercial area with marketing and cold storage facilities.
Affordable public housing was developed by the government in conjunction with TDC and the State Housing Corporation. The corporation has been instrumental in developing the
harbour area of Tema in particular, with modern housing. The corporation was set up in 1952 with the sole aim to develop and manage the township of Tema. In 1963, the
Tema Development Corporation Act was passed. In recent years the corporation has had much investment from
Korea, including plans, as of 2013, to build a new stadium, an idea which proved unpopular with squatters. The first chief executive officer of the corporation was
Theodore S. Clerk, the first Ghanaian architect and award-winning
urban planner who served in the
CEO position from 1963 after the enactment of the statute, until 1965. ==Transportation==