(Business in Cameroon) - On 1 December 2016, during a meeting with the Head of the European Union delegation in Cameroon, Françoise Collet, the Managing Director of the port of Kribi, Patrice Melom, revealed that the first commercial vessel is expected to berth at the deep water port of Kribi before the end of March 2017.

The largest port infrastructure ever built in the country, the deep water port of Kribi, in Southern Cameroon, is still not operational, even though the construction works for its last phase (protection dyke, container terminal and multipurpose terminal, port warehousing equipment, water and electricity connection) were completed over a year ago.

The causes of this blockage, we learned from reliable sources, are the delays in the management of the administrative procedures leading to the commissioning of the new port. For example, signing the contracts with the concessionaires who will operate the two terminals, has been awaited for several months now.

BRM