VOLAKTRA has been developed over many years by logistics, transport, and agriculture specialists with a primary objective of utilizing the waterways of Ghana for the benefit of remote communities as well as the sprawling populations on the coast.

The rationale is to initially carry agricultural produce from the remote growing areas/farmlands (e.g. Afram Plains) to the large consumer markets in the south (via Akosombo). The Afram Plains is a food-growing area with good soil and water access but badly served with land transport which leads to low farm gate prices and high food prices at the consumer markets in the sợuth.