When it comes to cargo transit instances and container processing, what’s the efficiency?
Regardless of what was mentioned within the newest World Financial institution announcement that made the headlines within the newspapers, the vacation spot of the ships is efficient. The work carried out by the container terminal as a complete has made it doable to considerably cut back container processing instances. In the present day, there isn’t any extra ready due to the vacation spot of the ships. That is full garbage. Ship dealing with, which is a key indicator for port evaluation, is at this time probably the greatest on the West African coast. Interminable ready instances. Nobody can say {that a} ship arrived in Douala, that it needed to await days, as was carried out earlier than, earlier than getting into the port of Douala. On the terminal degree of the ships, this example doesn’t exist. That is the principle component of efficiency evaluation utilized by the World Financial institution NGO to ascertain the competitiveness of ports worldwide. On this component, you noticed {that a} boat doesn’t await a bottom-buoy, which matches towards the established classification. When it comes to ship processing time, loading and unloading vehicles, this goes with out saying. When the ship is doing properly, the earth can be doing properly. This can be a entire that holds collectively. You noticed an air conditioner, no vehicles ready, even on Friday when the supply fee could be very excessive: greater than 3,000 machines on common per week. Equally, we obtain containers for export with nice flexibility. This visible function, with out going into the statistics that we are going to publish, offers enough proof of the fluency of exercise on the Douala Port container terminal, opposite to what’s heard elsewhere. You possibly can see a very clear tarmac, however if you happen to take a look at the statistics, the Cameroonian market is essentially provided and there’s no scarcity. Items come out and in with out incident. These are the fast outcomes of the work carried out by the PAD on the vacation spot of the ships. Tasks are deliberate, particularly to broaden the constructing.
An organization acquired a mortgage from Eximbank to finish considered one of these tasks. May you give us extra details about the conduct of this venture?
I can let you know one factor: the port of Douala, by taking on the vacation spot of the ships in 2020, is raring to renovate the constructing. The Director Basic of PAD introduced the enlargement of the vacation spot of the ships. An enormous venture will begin quickly, and the memoranda of understanding have already been signed by the companions. This venture goals to increase the extra quay by 250 linear meters, thus bringing the linear capability of the ship’s terminal to a minimal of 1000 meters. The intention is to put the vacation spot of the ships among the many amenities of at this time. Up to now, it was tough to think about {that a} ship terminal may have a pier size of 1000 meters. Should you journey via the ports on the West African coast, you will notice that this sort of vacation spot is uncommon. Along with this extension, we could have roughly eight further hectares of floor. It’s not straightforward to search out such a floor, however we’ll get there. As well as, with the transfer to an RTG (Rubber-Drained Gantry) tower in a contemporary dealing with mode, the storage and processing capability of the conveyor will improve considerably, by not less than 50%. By 2026, we can accommodate and deal with site visitors of 1 million twenty-foot equal models (TEU) with ease. For a port like Douala, we’re already anticipating the dynamics of Cameroon’s financial growth.
You introduced the Navis N4 built-in system. How does it work, does it actually work and what are its results?
The N4 is invisible to the bare eye. It’s an built-in system. It is a bit like the factitious intelligence behind all these units you see. These instruments work via this technique. In the present day we now have 32,000 containers. When somebody comes to have a look at them, how will they be seen? it is like matchsticks in a matchbox. These vessels look comparable, and the way can we establish them and ship them when wanted? It’s this synthetic intelligence that accomplishes this process. The consequence by way of efficiency that I’ve simply talked about is partly resulting from this system.
Relating to the refrigerated containers, the topic of which was hitting the headlines with considered one of your fish importers, what answer did you discover to unravel the issue of congestion attributable to fish rot for them?
In the present day, the airport doesn’t scent of rotten fish. Behind us are packs of refrigerated containers. We now have requested all contributors to strictly respect the regulatory provisions. It’s this motive that conquered all of the needs and all the implications that adopted. The regulatory provisions would require that fish merchandise, that are very delicate to the assorted hyperlinks within the chilly chain, be eliminated instantly as quickly because the ship touches the airport, to make make sure that the chilly chain is adhered to. These ships, which typically come from very distant, particularly from Latin America, maintain their merchandise for not less than two months. You possibly can think about the sensitivity of this sort of product. That’s the reason the State of Cameroon, via the Ministry of Commerce, put in place particular guidelines in 2015. We requested all companions to work on this regard and to respect these guidelines. The consequence you see at this time, particularly with a fluid terminal, is proof of this. In 2024, we’ll import as many ships for a similar buyer as in 2023. There are not any detrimental penalties, as a result of we now have inspired companions to work there the rational and civil approach. That is our technique, not the technique of the RTC. We all know that the Port of Douala provides Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR).
What particular preparations have been made on the vacation spot degree of the ships for these two international locations and in comparison with different ports within the sub-region, how does Douala consider its efficiency?
The director basic of the Container Terminal Authority, Mr. Dieudonné Onana Ndoh, is at the moment in N’Djamena to reply to the invitation of this sister nation and take part within the shippers’ discussion board. This invitation was launched in recognition of the service offered by the PAD (Autonomous Port of Douala). That is the primary discussion board organized by this nation for hackers, and the PAD was invited due to the efforts made to facilitate commerce. The resolutions that come from tripartite conferences, that are organized each two years between these three international locations, are additionally carried out. These measures intention to ensure the move of products to those locations. We proceed to enhance this technique from yr to yr to get higher outcomes.
