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Vice-President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah�-Arthur has expressed the government�s resolve to build an integrated transport system that would facilitate the evacuation of goods from Ghana to inland countries of West Africa. He explained that the system would include the expansion of the country�s ports, rehabilitation and expansion of the railway network and the development of inland ports. Speaking during a courtesy call on him by The Netherlands Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Hans Docter, at the Flagstaff House yesterday, Mr Amissah-Arthur said the government was in the process of engaging the various stakeholders, both home and abroad, to raise the needed funds for the project. Appeal The Vice-President appealed to The Netherlands Government to share its experiences on the expansion of its ports, especially the famous Rotterdam Port with Ghana. Shell and Vitol, two oil companies, have their origins in the Netherlands for which reason Mr Amissah-Arthur indicated that being in the oil business for more than a century was an opportunity for the Netherlands to support Ghana in that sector. Ghana-Netherlands co-operation Mr Docter said the Dutch Government was willing to support Ghana to develop a robust transport system, explaining that some Ghanaians were invited to the Netherlands for the purpose of studying port management and finding possible areas of collaboration between the two countries. He added that it was the desire of the Dutch Government to establish a training school for port management in Ghana to train professionals to help remedy the bottlenecks at the country�s ports. Mr Docter also said he was willing to share the Netherlands expertise in fishing and aquaculture with Ghana.