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Douala-Bangui, Douala-N’djamena Corridor: Fare hikes announced for January.
Douala-Bangui, Douala-N’djamena Corridor: Fare hikes announced for January.
Beginning, January 2020, business operators will pay FCFA 4 million and FCFA 3.5 million to transport their wares from the Douala seaport to N’Djamena and Bangui respectively. This was the key resolution that sanctioned the Heavy Duty Transporters’ Union, that held recently in Douala. Transporters from Chad and the Central African Republic also participated at the crucial meeting. As at now, goods owners are charged between FCFA 2.4 and 2.9 million to convey their wares to N’Djamena while transporters charge between FCFA 2.2 and 2.7 million to take a truck load to Bangui.
According to actors in this sector, the current pricing doesn’t enable them to make ends meet from the activity. Apart from making ends meet, many other factors account for the price increase. For the President of the Heavy Duty Transporters’ Union, Raymond Moungang, “several indicators justify the rise in prices. Ten years ago, when the present prices were established, a bag of rice cost FCFA 13,000. Today, the same bag costs FCFA 22,000, but the transport fare has remained the same.” He added that if affairs continue in the same way, their endeavor will no longer be profitable. The meeting was a forum for actors to express their worries and get saved from a slow, but steady exit. This increase will enable all stakeholders to share in the recent price hikes in the sale of goods, said ElHadji Oumarou, a Cameroonian transporter who also doubles as the coordinator of the Land Freight Management Office. The actors reassured customers that their actions are not influenced by any third party. It is worth noting that the three states; Cameroon, Chad and the Central African Republic have signed a convention to allow the Land Freight Management Office to administer the affairs concerning that sector. Key actors have also frowned at the presence of illegal transporters along these stretches of roads. Most of the heavy-duty trucks also fall short of recent innovations. The absence of Global Positioning System, GPS, installations on the cars allows some actors to get illicit on some occasions.
Culled from Cameroon Insider