由於受到喀麥隆當地海關腐敗影響，大量進口商不堪承受名目繁多的收費，放棄進口貨物，目前已有超過2000個集裝箱，被遺棄或滯留在杜阿拉港（Douala）。
前不久，伊朗海關表示，在截至2018年12月21日的過去九個月中，伊朗海關積壓的4.2萬個集裝箱中1.89萬個集裝箱貨物被棄貨。近期伊朗海關採取緊急措施，加快進口貨物清關，減少港口貨物積壓量。無獨有偶，日前，大量集裝箱滯港現象又發生在了西非最大港--喀麥隆的杜阿拉港。
杜阿拉港(Douala)，這個西非最大港口，由於受到當地海關腐敗影響，已造成大量進口商由於不堪名目繁多的亂收費，而放棄進口貨物。據不完全統計，目前已經有超過2000個集裝箱被遺棄或滯留在杜阿拉港。
日前，非洲內陸國家乍得和中非共和國等，已派遣高級海關官員到喀麥隆協助反腐調查。乍得和中非的貿易物資80%通過杜阿拉港中轉。杜阿拉港是乍得和中亞最近的海運進出口門戶，但目前進出口商已忍無可忍，並希望把進出口業務遷移到貝寧的科托努港。
西非最大港口－喀麥隆的杜阿拉港（Douala）
“當到達港口和任何一個檢查站，從憲兵到警察再到海關，進口商必須支付鉅額現金，而且還不被告知具體付款的原因，但必須在通過前支付。當在規定時間內沒有通過檢查站還需要額外繳納罰金。無論你是空車還是載貨。”當地相關人士表示。
事實上，此次杜阿拉(Douala)港上千個集裝箱滯港事件已不是首次發生，早在2014、2015年已有發生，當時，喀麥隆、乍得和中非三國海關署長協調會議在杜阿拉召開，會議就集裝箱貨物在杜阿拉港長期滯港、中部非洲走廊公路貨物運輸安全與暢通等議題進行了商討。乍得和中非兩國進口貨物主要從喀杜阿拉港中轉。據報道，當時已有超過3000箇中非進口集裝箱貨物在杜阿拉港長期滯港。看來這個西非最大港口這幾年集裝箱滯港問題一直存在也沒有解決。有貨物出口或經過該港中轉的貨代外貿企業注意了，做好提前準備，以免造成不必要的損失。
根據喀麥隆《海關法》第273條，對於在杜阿拉港存放時間超過90天的集裝箱貨物，杜阿拉港海關貨物拍賣專門委員會將依法進行統一拍賣，拍賣收入將上繳喀國庫。
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Source: Voice of America
Chad, CAR Threaten to Abandon Cameroon Port, Blame Corruption
DOUALA, CAMEROON Landlocked Chad and the Central African Republic have dispatched senior customs officials to Cameroon to look into allegations of corruption in the Atlantic Coast port of Douala.
At the port, heavy equipment is excavating and relocating huge quantities of abandoned material at the Douala seaport.
Some of the containers, with vehicles and other goods destined for Cameroon, Chad and CAR, were abandoned by importers who complain that high levels of corruption, red tape and overpriced services are driving them away from one of Africa’s largest harbors.
Pay and pay again
Moise Vokeng of the Professional Transporters Network at the Douala seaport says importers and exporters are looking for alternatives.
When you arrive at the port and at any checkpoint, from gendarmes to police to customs, you have to pay money, you have to pay heavy money, you do not know why you pay but you must pay before you pass, Vokeng said.
Whether you enter with empty trucks or you are loaded, you have to pay. When we load we have to wait for the tracking equipment from the customs to be certain and when it is certain we have six hours to leave the seaport to Yassa, which is the first checkpoint. When you arrive at the checkpoint after six hours you have penalties to pay, he added.
Vokeng says clearing procedures are long and cumbersome because of degraded infrastructure and lack of investment. He says to take a car out, an importer needs no fewer than 25 stamps before paying $2,000 to customs officials for a 5- to 10-year-old car. He says to remove a car from the port at times takes two to three weeks.
Yaya Abdallah, a Chadian driver finally leaves the port. He says corruption is not only a problem inside the port, it stalks drivers on the road as well. He says Chadian and CAR drivers say Cameroon’s military and police harass them and drivers pay huge sums of money, which makes their businesses highly unprofitable.
He says they spend more than $300 to bribe gendarmes and police between Douala and Ndjamena, and no one seems to listen to them when they complain.
Officials deny bribe-taking
But Ngube Philomene, a senior official of the Cameroon military controlling traffic between Cameroon and Chad and Cameroon and CAR, says that because of insecurity, they have to control the trucks. She denies they collect bribes from drivers.
We are systematically controlling all vehicles to CAR and Chad because of insecurity and the crisis in CAR. We have to do it for their own security and safety, Ngube says.
Douala is the nearest ocean gateway for Chad and CAR, but importers and exporters say they are fed up and want to relocate to Cotonou in Benin.
Onana Ndoh, secretary general of the Community of Workers at Douala’s port authority argues, that Cotonou will be more expensive. He says it would be better for the landlocked countries to meet Cameroonian authorities and negotiate improvements.
The shippers of Central Africa and Chad cannot leave the port of Douala, the shortest way for them to go to the sea, he said. I can tell you that the commandant of Gendarmerie in the port has already taken steps to punish all caught in creating complications to shippers.
This week, Chad’s director of customs, Colonel Ousmane Adam Dicki, visited Cameroon. He says he first wants goods that have been piling up there to be cleared before negotiations on what his country will do next.
He says his country has sent him to take stock of all merchandise and containers destined for Chad, and to control and organize their transit within the shortest possible time.
More than 2,000 containers have been stuck in Douala for the past two months. In the past 30 years, there has been no major investment to expand the port.來源布知道
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