(Business in Cameroon) - From August 27, 2014 to December 20, 2014, Cameroonian Customs will be carrying out a vast auction of products abandoned by importers at the port of Douala and which have been cluttering the port, thus contributing to its congestion for several months.

Indeed, in addition to a cement shipment imported by way of financing from Crédit foncier du Cameroun (CFC) and abandoned at the port of Douala since January 2010, the port has also been turned into a storage area for many importers who do not respect the maximum of 11 days for merchandise to remain at the port.

To this effect, a press release dated August 14, 2014, Douala International Terminal (DIT), the container terminal concession holder revealed that “efforts to improve and get back to normal (at the container terminal) were slowed by the bottleneck created by the high number of containers abandoned by importers for more than 90 days at the terminal (more than 1,800 PVR containers) and the equally high number of local company containers remaining on the premises for more than 30 days.”