AfCFTA

• Posted on 2021-02-10
• Commerce Facilitation

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is a flagship project of the African Union’s Agenda 2063, a blueprint for attaining inclusive and sustainable development across the continent over the next 50 years. It aims to boost intra-African trade by providing a comprehensive and mutually beneficial trade agreement among the member states, covering trade in goods and services, investment, intellectual property rights and competition policy.

The Agreement entered into force... Read more

Exporting to the European Union Cameroon generates benefits

• Posted on 2020-12-10

The European Union's (EU) observation clear: “Cameroon exports more goods to the EU than the EU exports to Cameroon”, at least for 2019. During the reference period, Cameroon exported goods worth 1.4 trillion CFAF to the EU, representing a 20% increase over the past five years. The good performance of exports is notably driven by cocoa beans (243 billion CFAF), bananas (136 billion CFAF), and timber (140 billion CFAF).

Cameroon has also exported other products to its... Read more

Cabotage

• Posted on 2020-11-18
• Investissement Commerce Facilitation

On 3 November 2020, the cabotage vessel of the Cameroonian company Camship-CLGG performed its inaugural trip of the weekly Kribi-Douala cabotage line. “This project saw the light of day following incessant requests by our customers involved in imports and exports, and even the main shipping lines. The fairly high volume of containers coupled with a high road accident rate, road transport could no longer satisfy customers’ needs”, Angelique Beatrice Touenguene, Deputy... Read more

Port of Kribi

• Posted on 2020-09-02
• Commerce Facilitation

In order to facilitate trade and benefit from the facilities the Kribi Port offers to carriers, officials of the Port Authority of Kribi (PAK) and those of the Cameroon Land Transporters' Association (GTTC) held a working session on 18 August on the “Deployment of the Cameroon Land Transporters' Association (GTTC) in the port of Kribi: How to achieve that?"

Due to the corona virus pandemic, the working session took place via video conference in order... Read more