The coronavirus (Covid-19) caused, on June 30, 2020, a shortfall in the Congolese Shippers Council (CCC), estimated at more than two hundred and twenty-eight million seven hundred and forty-one thousand and five one hundred and ninety-four CFA francs (228,741,594FCFA), said the Director General of the CCC, Séraphin Mouendzi, during the last Board of Directors.
“The spread of the Covid-19 pandemic has negatively impacted the company’s finances,” he said, adding that “despite this significant drop in income, the general management of the CCC was keen to meet all its obligations.”
Among these, the regular payment of salaries and the clearance of the debt to the National Social Security Fund (CNSS) which rose from seven hundred and sixty-eight million eight hundred and twenty-one thousand three hundred and four CFA francs. (768,821,304FCFA) on August 31, 2017 at two hundred and ninety-two million four hundred and fifty-eight thousand two hundred and fifty one CFA francs (292,458.251FCFA) on June 30, 2020. There is also the regular payment of charges fiscal.
Regarding the balance sheet of the CCC fiscal year 2019, Séraphin Mouendzi indicated that it, as of December 31, 2019, “generated a profit of three hundred and seventy-two million eighteen thousand three hundred and forty-two CFA francs (372,018,342 FCFA ) ”. This result is up more than 10% compared to 2018, he explained.
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the CCC, Jean Louis Osso, praised the results of the past financial year of this public company of an industrial and commercial nature. For him, by creating this structure in 2000, the Congolese Head of State “indeed had the vision of making it a true modern management tool that is capable of and capable of producing added value to the national economy. “.
Based in Pointe-Noire, the CCC is working on the erection of its new headquarters (R + 9), which will be enthroned in the heart of the economic capital. At a cost of seven billion one hundred and seventy-seven million CFA francs (7,177,000,000 FCFA), the work of this headquarters was entrusted to the company China state construction engineering corporation Congo Sarl.
