The actors of the transport and trade sectors of CEMAC agreed to this effect on November 14, 2020 in Douala. Freight transport tariffs on the Douala-Bangui and Douala-Ndjamena corridors will soon drop.
So decided by the actors of the transport and trade sectors of the CEMAC sub-region. It was at the end of a conclave organized on November 14, 2020 in Douala. It comes after the sub-regional awareness and information workshop on community regulations on November 3, 2020, still in Douala.
The consensus therefore prevailed around the lowering of tariffs in the sub-region at a time when the tension of the carriers was more and more elevated because of the harassment and the tariffs considered high on these corridors. Since January 1, 2020, the cost of transporting goods on these corridors has increased. The decision was taken on October 31, 2019 in Douala during a meeting organized by the National Union of Road Transporters of Cameroon (SNTRC). A meeting in which Central African and Chadian transporters had also taken part.
Thus, the prices in force in 2019 (between 2.4 and 2.9 million FCFA in the direction of Ndjamena and between 2.2 and 2.7 million FCFA in the direction of Bangui) fell from January 1, 2020 to 3.5 million FCFA by truck to Bangui and 4 million FCFA for the Douala-Ndjamena route. A situation, complain the carriers, which was no longer likely to allow them to make a living from their activity in this period of Covid-19 which has considerably impacted transport.
Hence the need for lower prices. “What has prevailed is this idea of consensus so that we can slightly depart from a certain number of parameters that can undermine the process”, rejoiced El Hadj Oumarou, general coordinator of the Management Office. land freight (Bgft) from Cameroon. If we stick to the resolutions of the Douala conclave, the application of tariffs and community regulations will no longer be the subject of disparities in Central Africa.
