BY NDUMBE BELL JOSEPH GASTON IN DOUALA
Some 2,000 jobs are to be created at a new fishing terminal in Cameroon’s economic capital Douala.
The project which is meant to generate 500 direct jobs and 1,500 indirect jobs was made possible in an agreement signed by the Autonomous Port of Douala’s Director General Cyrus Ngo’o and the representative of the Douala Port Fishing Terminal S.A. for the modernisation of the fishing terminal.
The two-phased project includes the construction of a multifunctional refrigerated building equipped with warehouses and cold rooms ; a refrigerated container park; a dock ; a centre for sorting, processing, packaging and preserving products and then an ice cream factory ; a fishermeal production plant ; commercial spaces ; a public restaurant and an administrative building.
When introduced initially by PAD in October 20, 2022, the investment’s feasibility study capital amounted to FCFA 10 million with the ambition of developing a fishing terminal at Douala Port. The study had in consideration the social purpose, the conduct of all construction and engineering works, the overall management of the rehabilitation of the PAD fishing terminal and the operational and maintenance costs of the said terminal.
Douala Port Fishing Terminal S.A. (DPFTS S.A) is expected to develop and carry out industrial fishing and marine-cultural activities, the import exploitation and distribution of fishing, products and other products requiring the cold chain as well as miscellaneous activities to facilitate the realisation of the project.