(Business in Cameroon) - The concessionaire of the container terminal at the port of Douala, DIT, announced it has paid the Cameroonian government CFA185.3 billion in taxes over 13 years of activity. This translates into an annual payment of CFA14.25 billion. The news was recently disclosed at a meeting with economic operators on the popularization of container removal procedures in the port.
The company managed by Bolloré-APMT, also indicated that it had invested around CFA45.559 billion over the period. Currently DIT has 393 employees with 4,790 hours of training. Its equipment includes five quayside cranes for unloading and loading ships, four gantry cranes, 18 park cranes for loading and unloading containers, etc.
The volumes handled by DIT at the Douala container terminal increased from 131,994 twenty-foot equivalent containers (TEUs) at the beginning of the concession in 2005 to nearly 386,500 TEUs in 2017.
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