(Business in Cameroon) - On 12 December 2017, as was being signed the funding agreement (CFA1.7 billion) for the project to upgrade the  Youpwe pier and fish market in Douala, Louis Paul Motaze, Cameroon’s minister of economy, expressed his will to see Limbé’s seafront benefit from Japan’s financial support.  

"Our deepest desire is that Limbé profits from the same infrastructure from Japan in the coming years. After Kribi and Douala, only that town’s seafront remains for all Cameroonians to profit from Japanese experience and expertise in the field", Louis Paul Motaze said to Kunio Okamura, Japan’s ambassador in Cameroon.

Cameroon’s minister of economy also invited the ambassador to take initiatives for the development and integration of education fields and specific training modules in training schools and institutes specializing in fishery. This, for an optimal use of these infrastructures offered by Japan.

Louis Paul Motaze expects positive impacts from the construction of a fish market in Limbé. This should indeed boost trade with Nigeria, as well as improve fishing activities and the sales of fishing products.

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