Kribi to re-open Wood Park

This is one of the bottlenecking solutions advocated during the descent on 14 August of members of the General Assembly of PAD at the port of Douala.

"Kribi was not a port for only the shipment of wood. By closing the Park, all the wood of the Cemac zone would be forced to converge on the Douala parks which is completely inadequate”, said Emmanuel Etoundi Oyono, Director-general of the Autonomous Port of Douala (PAD) on the need to re-open the wood Park in Kribi to overcome one of the causes of congestion in the economic capital's port.

It was during a field trip by few members of the General Assembly of PAD to see congestion problems, as recommended at the last session that the DG noticed several problems: insufficient capacity of reception of ships with all docks occupied, dilapidated ships, slow handling etc.

As sites of engorgement, in addition to the wood Park, Emmanuel Etoundi Oyono explained: "we have set up a mechanism which allows the rate of transfer of the goods to go faster, one from the gantry, the other from the cranes. And even there, it was almost horizontal in terms of storage; we will now win space so there is little more containers in storage areas".

Always at containers terminal, we recognise that the Park is narrow; the DG of PAD believes that one of the bottlenecks, is that "the stored containers are not removed by those who have imported. Cameroonians love free services; they will ask that they exempt the rights, which will never be the case”.

And for the decongestion of the buoy base, ships must not exceed a period of 7 days at Wharf, otherwise they will simply be returned to allow other naval vessels to enter the port.

Emmanuel Etoundi Oyono, after having listed a few solutions, concludes: "everyone knows what he should do and at what time”