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The Limbé Deep Water Port

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The Limbé Deep Water Port is a port under construction in Cameroon.

It should be delivered in 2018. It should be delivered in 6 months and will specialize in the transport of hydrocarbons and agricultural products. The feasibility studies are funded by the Americans. 400 billion CFA Franc is the estimated amount for construction. It is presented as a large second generation project. It is part of a public private partnership project. With the BOT operating mode: built operate transfer. It is located 20 kilometers from Douala.

The builder is a Cameroonian-Korean consortium Limbe Port Industrial Development Corporation (LIPID) and Afko3,4,5. The option of a multi-functional floating jetty is preferred. It is a cement port with the construction of a South Korean cement plant. It will bring freight freight to Nigeria.

Its vocation will be an exchange port between Nigeria and Cameroon and a bursting of traffic. Between West and Central Africa. Capable of accommodating vessels of 30 thousand tons and is estimated at US $ 35 million. The port, whose funding is estimated at US $ 602 million, will specialize in the transport of heavy products such as hydrocarbons, cement, containers and other agricultural products.

The Autonomous Port of Douala

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The Autonomous Port of Douala is a company that owns Cameroon’s first active port, the Port of Douala. This company belongs to the Cameroonian State. It is located in the Wouri estuary on the littoral coast and overlooks the Atlantic Ocean.

It provides 95% of Cameroon’s national port traffic and is the first port of CEMAC. It also makes it possible to serve the landlocked states of Chad and the Central African Republic, thanks to special agreements. As such, exports and imports from or to these countries benefit from preferential tariffs. In 2003, the container activity stood at 1.2 million tonnes, or 137,624 TEUs of 20 feet equivalent, for a containerization rate of 50%. In the first quarter of 2007, the autonomous port exported 520,589 tonnes, broken down as follows3: sawn timber: 30% logs: 26% banana: 12% cocoa: 8% scrap: 6% cotton: 5% aluminum: 3% coffee: 2% rubber: 2% others: 6% In total, Cameroon exported 520,589 tonnes. This represents a growth rate of 3% year-on-year. Very low, because exports represent only 41% of the trade balance. Following a series of privatizations in 2003 and 2004, the container terminal (DIT) is operated by private operators united in a consortium, notably Bolloré and Maersk. The towing and mooring activities as well as the operation of the ice plant have also been privatized.

The first improvements were said to have been undertaken in 1881 by the German firm Woermann-Linie following an agreement with the Douala kings. It should be noted that until then European companies traded from pontoon boats moored in the middle of the river. Initially, the port is in fact a simple median built at the level of the Akwa village. The construction of a real concrete quay will be undertaken at the end of the nineteenth century by the Germans under the authority of Governor Jesko von Puttkamer. The Germans intended to make this port one of the most modern on the west coast of Africa because they considered that the absence of a helm gave it a decisive advantage. It is in the port area that the country’s first industries will be born. When Cameroon gained independence, the port was transferred to the Cameroon National Ports Office (ONPC). The autonomous port of Douala, in its current legal form, was born in 1999, from the law n ° 98/021 of December 24, 1998, which organizes the national port domain. The PAD is the result of the split of the National Ports Office of Cameroon (ONPC) into several entities, the autonomous ports on the one hand, which operate the Cameroonian ports, and the National Port Authority (ANP) on the other hand. , which controls the autonomous ports.

The Kribi Deep Water Port

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The Kribi Deep Water Port is a complex located 35 km south of the seaside town of Kribi on the Cameroonian coast, it borders the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean.

The decision of the Cameroonian government to build the port on the Mboro site came in 2008 with the establishment of the steering committee1. The work is carried out by the China Harbor Engineering Company (CHEC). Construction work began in 2012. The first ships were welcomed in 2014, the berthing of a deep draft vessel took place in March 2018.

The deep water port of Kribi is close to Cameroon’s major mining sites. It relieves congestion in the port of Douala, where the delays in receiving ships are sometimes several weeks. But also to make Kribi a major port hub with several new terminals. Since 2003, it has also been the outlet for the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline.

Ultimately, this port infrastructure will cover an area of 26,000 hectares. It will include: a general port with container terminal, a multipurpose terminal, an aluminum terminal and related plant; a hydrocarbon terminal associated with a storage area and a grain terminal; an LNG terminal, and a natural gas liquefaction plant. To this will be added a marina, an industrial fishing port and a naval base.

All these developments will be carried out between 2012 and 2040, for a total cost estimated at CFAF 6,500 billion. 20,000 direct jobs are planned, ditto for indirect jobs. Construction work on the deep-water port of Kribi began on December 27, 2010 with the launch of general earthworks for the construction of platforms to accommodate the onshore port facilities of the general port at Mboro2. 60 hectares of forest have thus been cleared. The first phase of the deep water port of Kribi was accepted in April 2015. This reception, qualified as technical, consists of an annual capacity of 350,000 TEU (Twenty foot equivalent) for the reception of ships, and a multipurpose terminal with an annual capacity of 1,500,000 tonnes3. The Chinese company CHEC, a construction and civil engineering company, a subsidiary of CCCC, one of the 500 largest Chinese companies, has delivered the first phase of the Kribi container terminal, the first of its kind built in Central Africa , which has a quay of 350 m and a depth of 15 meters. The second phase of construction, in particular a new quay of 700 meters will be delivered according to the Bolloré group [ref. desired], within a maximum period of 5 years. Ultimately, the port will be larger than that of Douala and will benefit from greater sea depth to accommodate larger ships. Its extension is planned over five years4. The development of specific terminals is also planned, including aluminum, hydrocarbon, alumina, mineral, liquefied natural gas, etc. terminals.