Member countries of the Union of African Shippers (UCCA) Councils participated in a sub-regional conference on the facilitation of economic and commercial exchanges in Central and West Africa, with the support of the Nations Conference on trade and development (UNCTAD) on Tuesday October 14, 2014 in Douala.

The meeting was to enable the participants to maintain focus and reflect on the theme: "The strategies of the implementation of the agreement of the World Trade Organization's (WTO) on the facilitation of trade".