Goods transport : The port of Kribi goes operational

• Posted on 2018-03-20

The ship "Bianca" that left Asia in January this year finally docked at the Kribi Deep Sea Port on Friday, 2 March 2018. The 335-mettre long commercial vessel weighing some 90,000 tonnes with a carrying capacity of 8500 containers offloaded a little more than 500 containers, hardware products, materials for the construction of the African Cup of Nations infrastructure, wood, cars and so on. This is the first time a ship of this size has docked in Cameroon.

The arrival of this... Read more

Seminar : Trade facilitation on the agenda

• Posted on 2018-03-20

The seminar that was conducted by UNCTAD experts aimed at building the capacity of CONAFE members.

From 26 February to 1 March 2018, Douala hosted a training seminar on module 3 of capacity building of CONAFE member. The meeting, which was organised by the National Trade Facilitation Committee of Cameroon (CONAFE), in collaboration with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), was themed adoption of a Trade Facilitation Roadmap. The objective of this... Read more

Cocoa sector: Re-launching through training

• Posted on 2018-02-19

A cocoa tasting introductory session held in Yaounde on Friday, 9 February 2018. It was attended by the Cameroon Ministers of Trade, Mr. Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana and Employment and Vocational Training, Mr. Zacharie Perevet, many producers and other cocoa sector actors.

Apart from introducing attendees to cocoa tasting, the session consisted in giving the requisite tools to regular producers of quality cocoa beans in order to optimise the quality of their yields. This meeting equally... Read more

Sub regional trade: Corridors still a cause for concern

• Posted on 2017-12-14

Quite unexpected, truckers implicated in the difficulties faced by their employers, who are key foreign trade actors when it comes to transport to the hinterland. According to the Cameroon Ambassador to Chad, H.E.Sanda Oumarou, some drivers are feeding fat from the so-called "road charges," a good part of which goes into their pockets and they argue that it is being used to bribe their way along the Douala-Bangui or Douala-N'Djamena corridors.

"The conscience of the... Read more