(Business in Cameroon) – Africa Global Logistics (AGL), a logistics firm formed from the 2022 acquisition of Bolloré Group’s African logistics assets by the Italo-Swiss MSC, plans to invest 12 billion CFA francs in Cameroon in 2025, according to Thibaut Lamé, Managing Director of AGL’s Cameroon subsidiary.
Lamé, who disclosed the figure on the sidelines of a May 8, 2025, ceremony to commission ten new container trucks at the Kribi logistics platform, stated that this investment marks a 71% year-on-year increase from the 7 billion CFA francs committed in 2024.
Of the total, more than 4 billion CFA francs are currently being injected into expansion work and equipment, including trucks and container handling machinery, at the Kribi logistics platform. This facility, inaugurated in 2022 within the industrial-port zone of Kribi in Cameroon’s South region, is undergoing significant upgrades. With the addition of 10,000 square meters of paved surfaces and 3,000 square meters of new warehouses — supplementing the existing 7,700 square meters of paving and 6,000 square meters of warehouses — the Kribi Logistics Hub aims to meet the growing demand from the deep seaport of Kribi. The port’s second container terminal officially commenced operations on May 9, 2025, tripling its container handling capacity from 300,000 to approximately one million per year.
Beyond investments in its Kribi logistics platform, AGL also intends to launch what Lamé terms “the regionalization of logistics solutions” this year. To achieve this, the group plans to construct a logistics platform in Ngaoundéré, located in northern Cameroon. The construction of this new infrastructure, for which the cost has not been disclosed, forms part of the dry port construction project in Ngaoundéré, spearheaded by the Cameroonian state.
“In Ngaoundéré, we have what we call a break-of-bulk point, due to the end of the railway line — an extension project to N’Djamena, Chad, has been in the pipeline for about a decade — which creates a need for storage capacity, especially for goods in transit to Chad,” explained the AGL Cameroon Managing Director. He projects construction to commence in the second half of 2025 and span eight to twelve months.
A similar project is slated for the town of Belabo, situated in Cameroon’s forest and mining-rich East region. This upcoming infrastructure, officials indicate, is designed to cater to the demand for processing and storage facilities for sawn timber. This anticipates the log export ban set to take effect by 2028 across the CEMAC region, impacting forestry operators active in Cameroon and the Central African Republic.
Brice R. Mbodiam
