(Business in Cameroon) - The Cameroonian Minister of Transport, Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo’o, commissioned on 18^th May 2017 in Douala, the economic capital, the 3^rd dockside gantry crane at the port of Douala

This equipment, according to the Managing Director of Douala International Terminal (DIT), the company holding the concession contract for the container terminal at the port of Douala, this gantry crane “complies with the highest standards in terms of environment protection: low CO2 emission and 30% less energy to power it compared to existing equipment”. 

Purchased by DIT, based on the terms of the concession agreement for the container terminal at the port of Douala, this equipment, which cost FCfa 5.5 billion, was built by the Chinese company ZMPC, presented as the world leader in construction of port lifting machinery. 

According to the Managing Director of the Autonomous Port of Douala (PAD), Cyrus Ngo’o, “this equipment scheduled for 2008, arrived today mainly because of the necessary caution and debates which occurred, regarding the geo-mechanical stability of the dockside and its capacity to bear a third crane. This technical prerequisite having been covered in 2014, the implementation of the specifications, with regards to this tool, was started”. 

The new portal crane, according to experts, will considerably boost warehousing capacities in the Douala port container terminal, insofar as, we learned, it is able to search for containers even further on vessels (15 rows against 13 for the current cranes), has a lifting capacity of 45 tons against 40 tons for the others, and help to operate faster.

BRM