Takoradi Harbour is Ghana's oldest and most historically significant seaport — the gateway that opened the country's modern export economy — and today it operates alongside the newer, deeper Takoradi Port expansion at the same Sekondi-Takoradi location in the Western Region. **The original harbour.** Built by the British and opened in 1928, Takoradi Harbour was constructed primarily to export Ghana's timber, cocoa, gold and manganese from the Western Region, replacing the surf-boat "lighterage" system that had made Accra and Cape Coast slow and dangerous for cargo. For decades it was Ghana's only deep-water seaport, and the railway line from Kumasi to Takoradi was built partly to feed it. The old harbour handles break-bulk cargo, timber, and general goods, and it remains a working port with a distinctive colonial-era layout. **The modern port.** In 2019–2020 Ghana invested heavily in a major expansion — the Takoradi Port Project — adding new deep-water berths, a dedicated oil services terminal, and dry bulk facilities to serve the offshore oil and gas fields (Jubilee, TEN, Sankofa) that lie off the Western coast. This transformed Takoradi from a timber-and-cocoa port into a full oil-and-gas logistics hub, with supply vessels, fabrication yards and marine services clustered around the port. The port is managed by the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), the same body that runs Tema Port. **Why it matters.** Takoradi is the twin city of Sekondi (together "Sekondi-Takoradi"), the capital of the Western Region and Ghana's fourth-largest city. The port is the economic spine of the region — cocoa, timber, manganese, bauxite and now petroleum products all move through it. It also serves landlocked neighbours indirectly, though Tema remains the busier container port. The Takoradi–Tema coastal corridor and the railway rehabilitation projects are part of Ghana's broader plan to link the two ports and ease pressure on road haulage. **A note on names.** People often say "Takoradi Harbour" and "Takoradi Port" interchangeably — technically the harbour is the old basin and the port is the whole GPHA facility including the new expansion. If you're asking about something very current — a specific vessel, a new berth commissioning, or today's port news — I don't have that from a verified source right now; want me to search deeper? As the Akan say, *"Dua korɔ gye mframa"* — a single tree cannot withstand the storm. Takoradi and Tema together are Ghana's two hands on the sea; neither carries the trade alone.