PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

The site chosen for the future dry port is in Ebebiyin, at the tripoint between the three countries (Cameroon – Equatorial Guinea – Gabon). It will be a multimodal terminal with bonded warehouse status where road convoys with appropriate logistics equipment can arrive to load or unload products for various destinations. The dry port will be composed of;

– a computer system connected to the internet
– the closure of the area;
– a transformer room;
– warehouses;
– a fuel storage and pumping station;
– a latrine block;
– an industrial area for the development of
processing activities of agricultural and mining products, in the long run. The dry port site will comply with the security and safety standards published by the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS Code). The Feasibility studies are available.

OBJECTIVES:

The overall goal of the project is to contribute to the deepening of integration by improving intra-community trade and facilitating trade and supplies, reducing the duration and cost of transit of goods, and decongesting ports. Specific goals include: (i) regularity and acceleration of the import and export circuit, (ii) control of the volume of trade and national statistics that constitute a strategic tool of economic policy, and (iii) facilitation of tax revenue collection through a single processing center. The sectoral goals are: (i) to have an effective emergency supply circuit, (ii) to quickly build up and mobilize a security stock (strategic products such as hydrocarbons, food products, industrial inputs, and other products), (iii) to contribute to the fight against tax fraud through methods of management of bonded warehouses, and (iv) to facilitate the payment of fees for storage and passage through the warehouse by national economic operators.

EXPECTED RESULTS:

The construction of the Ebebiyin Dry Port will contribute to decongesting the ports of the three countries. Several results are expected, including:
– The regularity and acceleration of import
and export circuits;
– The reduction of costs and the delivery
time of products through a single center that
brings together all stakeholders;
– Greater security of goods by implementing appropriate techniques and equipment for physical handling, storage, preservation, and delivery operations in a single location (concentration of flows);

Strengthening the integration of economies given that the project area of influence covers the three countries (Gabon, Cameroon, and Equatorial Guinea).

PROJECT COST:

The cost of the project is estimated at 204.892 million euros. For the financing, construction, and operation of the dry port, three options can be considered: (i) Option1: financing by the public sector and outsourcing of operation through a management contract with the private sector,  (ii) Option 2: financing and operation by the private sector, and (iii) Option 3: various forms of Public-Private Partnership.