Cameroon-CAR Transit : Improvements expected on the corridor

• Posted on 2018-03-20

At the behest of Mr. Theodore Jousso, Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation of the Central African Republic (CAR), a bipartite meeting bringing together representatives of the Cameroon Port Community dubbed Port Synthèse, business persons and actors of the transport sector players held from 26 to 28 February  2018 in Bangui, the Central African Republic. The Cameroon delegation was led by Mr. Charles Michaux Moukoko Njoh, Deputy General Manager of the Port Authority of Douala (PAD)... Read more

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