Starting from August 27, till December 20, 2014, Cameroonian Customs are carrying out a vast auction of products abandoned by importers at the port of Douala and which have choked the port, thus contributing serious congestion at the port for several months.

Indeed, in addition to a cement shipment imported by way of financing from Crédit foncier du Cameroun (CFC) and abandoned containers at the port of Douala since January 2010, the port has been turned into a storage area for many importers who do not respect the maximum of 11 days allowed to clear merchandise at the port.

To this effect, a press release dated August 14, 2014, Douala International Terminal (DIT), the container terminal concession holder revealed that “efforts to improve and get back to normal (at the container terminal) were slowed by the bottlenecks created by the high number of containers abandoned by importers for more than 90 days at the terminal (more than 1,800 PVR containers) and the equally high number of local company containers remaining on the premises for more than 30 days.”