The start with a fanfare of the Port of Kribi

Due to its natural assets, the quality of infrastructure and the expertise of its operators, it was noticeable during the past months, an acceleration of strategic traffic

The launch of the commercial activity, March 02, 2018, can - rightly - be considered the big date of the year 2018, at the Port of Kribi. The one around which the rest took shape: finalization of foreign trade procedures, installation and linking of players in the logistics platform and the rapid convergence of both goods and customers. Since then, PAK has become a distinct brand in the memory landscape of large Cameroonian companies and a key player in the national and sub-regional economy of transport and logistics. This, thanks in particular to the alliance with the third world armament, CMA-CGM, to which are added the intense marketing and prospecting actions carried by the PAK throughout the world. On a daily basis, PAK is already impacting on the dynamics of the logistic chains that pass through them, through time savings and control of the costs of port passage. It is also one of the safest ports in Africa (ISPS certified in March 2018), in which all the actors are organized and organized in a common objective of global performance, serving a global audience. economy of Cameroon and Central Africa.

Due to its natural assets, the quality of infrastructure and the expertise of its operators, it was noticeable during the past months, an acceleration of strategic traffic such as transhipment and export agricultural raw materials.

Indeed, the major players in the maritime and port world, who usually mark a time of observation and reflection before committing to new ports, have instantly materialized their enthusiasm. This is particularly the case for CMA-CGM, the world's third-largest shipowner, who organized, as soon as the Container Terminal entered service, services through five services connecting the Port of Kribi to some 50 countries. In fiscal year 2018, marine traffic at the Port of Kribi amounted to 6.4 million tons. As for the stopovers of the ships, they settle down in number of 274, on December 31st.

The traffic of containerized goods processed represents 18% of the global goods traffic. Most of this export traffic is wood and, on the import side, barley malt. For a total of 83,982 boxes processed, the port handled 10,388,981 tonnes of containerized transhipment goods, including. The volume of import traffic is 34,587 tonnes compared with 359,386 tonnes for the export of liquid bulk excluded.

The liquid bulk traffic handled at the Kribi port accounts for 79% of total traffic with the operation of the HillyEpiseyo gas terminal and the KK1 and EBOME oil terminals. For a volume of 6,249,907 tonnes of hydrocarbons and gases combined, the two off-shore terminals recorded 59 stopovers.

Solid bulk traffic handled at the port of Kribi represents 3% of the total traffic with the main commodity wood (logs, sawn or sawn and biomass). With a total of 224,567 tonnes exported.

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