A mission from the Cameroon National Shippers' Council visited the tri-border area to assess difficulties, identify solutions and make a plan for improvement.

From 5 to 12 August 2018, the General Manager of the Cameroon National Shippers' Council (CNSC) led the company's delegation on a working visit to the South Region.

The main objective of the visit was to meet business persons to identify their difficulties, acquaint them with developments in the foreign trade procedures for the improvement of the profitability of their businesses.

Mr. Auguste Mbappe Penda chose to visit CNSC facilities set up in the South Region since 1992 to assess the various shortcomings and malfunctions thereof, and identify the necessary solutions and make a plan for improvement. The final goal is to further boost trade between Cameroon, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.

In Kye-ossi and Abang-Minko'o, traders raised complains relating mainly to delays resulting from the implementation of the dematerialisation of customs clearing procedures compounded by the lack of electricity and Internet connection; too many actors involved in the field and the absence of sheds for the preservation of the goods.

To provide solutions to all these problems, Mr. Auguste Mbappe Penda promised that the CNSC will conduct training seminars in the area, and in order to guarantee transparency for traders, a CNSC census team will be dispatched to the area in the not-so-distant future to identify all the services involved in foreign trade and their various roles.

The CNSC General Manager also told business persons that his company plans to build warehouses in Kye-Ossi according to the types of goods traded.