(Business in Cameroon) - On the sidelines of the International Customs Day events held 21 January, Louis Paul Motaze (photo), Minister of Finance, made a commitment to relaunch the dry port project in Ngaoundéré, Adamaoua region.

“The Government Delegate to the Urban Community of Ngaoundéré has just asked me about the project to create a dry port here in Ngaoundéré. This is an old project that is dragging on and no one here is unaware of its impact on the local economy and the added value throughout the supply chain,”  the minister said.

“I am making a commitment here to move this project forward so that it will be completed in the coming months,”  he promised.

The Cameroonian government has been planning to build a dry port in Ngaoundéré for several years. The infrastructure will be a logistical platform, as the Adamaoua region in the northern part of the country is a crossroads of trade between Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria.

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