Some 700 people are stopping because of the announced bankruptcy of Rougier. The wooden operator had filed for bankruptcy in early March at the Commercial Court of Poitiers.
The wood merchant employing nearly 3,000 people worldwide, including 2,900 in Africa, reported “significantly increased stocks due to the non-evacuation of shipments from a fully saturated port that is not subject to no investment and which is also considerably silted, which hinders boats to go to the docks take packages to ship.
Claims refuted by the director general of the port of Douala. The bankruptcy of the Rougier Group should not fall to the port of Douala, where logistic operations of foreign trade is going normally, said the director of the port, Cyrus Ngo’o, in a press release.
The exploitation of port statistics for the 2016 and 2017 period shows rather a very significant increase in the handling operations carried out in favor of the Rougier Group, “said Cyrus Ngo’o in his press release.
“Such growth is contrary to the assertion of this group, which has also benefited from the facilities of admission to terminals, offered by the administrations, including the Cameroonian customs,” he assured.
