At audience in Yaounde: French businessmen, minister explore opportunities in transport sector.

This was during a recent audience Minister Jean Ernest Massena Ngalle Bibehe granted the visiting French delegation. The delegation was in Cameroon to partake in the second edition of Councils International Economic Forum, JEICOM 23. 

Minister Ngalle Bibehe was accompanied during the audience by the Minister Delegate, Zakariaou Njoya, Director of Road Transport, Mbamome Nkendong Divine, and representatives of other technical departments.

The MEDEF delegation, led by Eric Tchouvenel, was accompanied by the First Counsellor of the Cameroonian Embassy in France, Owona Menye, and the Economic Adviser at the French Embassy in Cameroon, Michel Drobniak.

Speaking during the meeting, the head of the visiting delegation said the aim of their visit was to present the minister their know-how and to explore investment opportunities in the different transport and meteorology sub-sectors.

On his part, Minister Ngalle Bibehe appreciated their wish to invest in Cameroon, while assuring government’s commitment to facilitating and attracting foreign investor. 

The Head of the Studies, Planning, Programming and Cooperation Division at the Ministry of Transport, Ngidjol Bea Joseph Roger, made a presentation of the ministry’s short and medium-term projects in the sector.  

In the presentation, Ngidjol revealed that in the rail sector, the government, through the transport ministry, is envisaging an extension of the rail network from Ngaoundere to Chad as well as the reconstruction of the Douala-Ngaoundere railway line.

Regarding the maritime and port sector, Ngidjol said the construction of the Limbe deep seaport and the rehabilitation and modernisation of the Garoua port are all being envisaged.

He further mentioned that projects such as the development of the Tiko, Bertoua and Kribi airports as well as the construction of the Ngaoundere multimodal platform and the modern logistics platform on the Bamenda-Enugu corridor, are amongst government’s projects in the air and intermodal sectors.

The MEDEF delegation was made up of representatives from some 15 French companies.