(Business in Cameroon) - According to Hervé Béril (photo), Managing Director of Cameroon Postal Services (Campost), Cameroon’s public postal service’s sales “have been rising regularly by 10% per annum” since the implementation of the e-post project which received 32 billion FCFA in financing from the government by way of a loan from Eximbnk of China.

According to Hervé Béril, the project, which aims to digitise and interconnect all 234 post offices across the nation (204 are already on the grid), enabled Campost to have 110 Vsat and roll out 710 km of fibre-optic infrastructure so that the company can have “a virtually autonomous network.”

Cameroon’s postal service is currently managed by a team provided by French company, Sofrepost, which renewed its two-year technical assistance contract with the Cameroonian authorities as a part of Campost’s restructuring. The contract is worth 2 billion FCFA.