Cooperation : Agreement on Bamboo and Rattan

• Posted on 2018-09-10

The International Organisation for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) now has its sub-regional office in Yaounde, Cameroon. This is the substance of the headquarters agreement signed on 2 September 2018 in Beijing between INBAR and Cameroon. The Cameroon Minister of External Relations, Lejeune Mbella Mbella and Dr. Hans Friederich, INBAR Director General, representing his organisation, signed the agreement at the Cameroon Embassy in China.

As a reminder, in March 2018, the President of the Republic... Read more

EPA : Business persons enjoy tariff reductions

• Posted on 2018-08-16

Two years after its entry into force on 14 August 2016, the Cameroon-European Union Bilateral Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) is yielding benefits.  Some 319 importers enjoyed substantial tariff reductions by 30 June of this year. All in all, goods worth 145 billion CFAF were imported with a tax gain of 4 billion CFAF. The Cameroon-based Louis Dreyfus Company, which specialises in the sale of agricultural chemicals, topped the list of importers after carrying out some 163 transactions... Read more

Opportunities : Three hundred and sixty projects in the pipeline

• Posted on 2018-06-26

The Ministry of Mines, Industry and Technological Development has set up a database of projects. In the area of agri-food, It holds that investors are needed to build ten production units for tomatoes and fruit juice, starch from maize, cassava and semolina, two sugar factories, the extension of banana factories in Penja, pepper in the Moungo, ten milk production units in Tignere, Garoua, Ngaoundere and Maroua, many plants for making flour from tubers, including cassava, yam, cocoyam, potato,... Read more

Maritime transport : CNSC receives the ISO 9001 certification

• Posted on 2018-05-15

ECTN issuing process certified in accordance with the requirements of ISO 9001 version 2015.

On 7 may 2018, the Cameroon National Shippers' Council (CNCC) officially received certification to International Standard ISO-9001 for its process of issuing the Electronic Cargo Tracking Note (ECTN) for maritime imports and exports from Bureau Véritas Cameroon. This ceremony was presided over by Jean Ernest Ngalle Bibehe, Minister of Transport. "This certification is the recognition... Read more