(Business in Cameroon) – The Port Authority of Kribi (PAK), the state-owned entity managing the Kribi port complex, has announced that customs authorities have collected nearly 1.2 trillion CFA francs in revenue since the infrastructure began operations in March 2018, according to PAK General Manager Parice Melom.
Highlighting the increasing strength of customs revenue collection at Kribi over the past seven years, Melom revealed that revenue has surged from 2 billion CFA francs in 2017 – the year before the port’s opening – to 300 billion CFA francs in 2024.
This growth, he added, positions the “port of Kribi as the second largest national contributor in terms of customs revenue,” trailing only the port of Douala, which remains Cameroon’s primary gateway for goods. Data from the National Port Authority (APN) indicates that in 2023, the port of Douala recorded a traffic volume of 12.2 million tons of goods, compared to 10.7 million tons for the Kribi deep seaport.
However, traffic figures at the Kribi port complex are expected to shift in the coming months following the commissioning of its second container terminal on May 9, 2025. This new infrastructure, which has attracted the shipping giant MSC to deploy its largest container vessels as part of its Africa Express maritime route connecting Asia to the West African coast, triples the port’s container handling capacity from 300,000 to approximately one million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units). This expansion is expected to generate additional customs revenue as early as the current year, 2025.
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