Kribi facility is designed to help customers ease supply chain bottlenecks, improve container availability and strengthen import and export flows
Maersk has opened a new container depot in Kribi, Cameroon, a move that it has said is In line with its investment strategy to strengthen Africa’s logistics infrastructure
The new container depot has a capacity of 1,500 TEUs and is part of what is a growing deep-water-port beside Douala.
”By easing logistics bottlenecks we can, together with our customers, mutually unlock stronger growth for Cameroon’s economy,” said Franck Dedenis, managing director of Maersk area West Africa.
“Efficient, reliable supply chains are levers for market growth, lowering costs and strengthening competitiveness,” he outlined. “Our customers will greatly benefit from the new facility.”
In addition to a range of manual cargo-handling services, customers using the new Maersk depot in Kribi will benefit from greater visibility into the status of their containers through Maerk’s digital booking, tracking and monitoring solutions, the group continued.
“In disruptive times like ours, visibility translates directly into supply chain resilience,” said Dedenis. “Right now, resilience of supply chains is on top of many customers’ agenda.”
Maersk stated that the Kribi depot is equipped to handle reefer containers, helping keep temperature-sensitive goods in peak condition throughout their journey, and will offer food-grade containers.
The logistics giant now offers customers dedicated services in eight Maersk-owned depots across West Africa, in addition to more than 20 depots operated by third-party vendor partners of Maersk.
Kribi adds another 16,000m2 to a network that already includes 150,000m2 in Maersk-owned depots and more than 280,000m2 in third-party depots.
”The Kribi depot is another example of Maersk’s priority to simplify and strengthen global supply chains, from factory to end consumer and from farm to fork for fresh agricultural produce,” Dedenis added.
