Nissan also wants to produce cars in Ghana soon. To get things started, the brand has hooked up with its African partner Japan Motors Trading.
Nissan has set up plans with its African trading partner Japan Motors Trading to open a production facility in Ghana soon. A factory is to be set up in the Ghanaian capital Accra where Nissan and Japan Motors Trading will be the first to produce the recently renewed Navara. The Navaras to be built are not reserved for the car market in Ghana, but must also be exported to other African countries. Nissan already has factories in Africa, namely in South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria. Construction of the new factory has already started.
Nissan and Japan Motors Trading are no strangers to each other. It is also not the first time that Nissan will build cars in Ghana. In 1958 S. Kalmoni & Sons, what would later become Japan Motors Trading, imported the first Datsuns into Ghana. In the mid-1960s, Japan Motors Trading opened an assembly line with Nissan in the city of Tema, where various Datsun pickups were assembled. In 1970 a second assembly line was opened where the 120Y left the production line. In 1980, the factories closed due to bad economic times.