The Governor of the East Region, Mr. Gregoire Mvongo, on 5 September 2025, officially inaugurated two key trade facilitation infrastructure projects built by the Cameroon National Shippers’ Council (CNSC) in the East Region. These include the CNSC Garoua-Boulai Trucker Accommodation Centre and the CNSC East Regional Office located in Yoko-Sire. Built on a surface area of 10 hectares, these two infrastructures are situated along National Road No. 1, not far from Cameroon’s border with the Central African Republic, a landlocked country whose cargo transit through Cameroonian ports of Douala and Kribi.

The new infrastructures come to make a total of four trucker accommodation centres and five regional offices constructed by the CNSC throughout the national territory.  “The project being inaugurated this day is CNSC’s most recent contribution to the facilitation of cargo transportation through the Douala– Bangui, Douala– Ndjamena/ Kribi- Bangui, Kribi- Ndjamena road corridors”, declared Mr. Auguste Mbappe Penda, CNSC’s General Manager, in the presence of many guests. During the ceremony, Mr. Mbang Sylvain and Mr. Ismaila Moustapha were respectively installed into office as Head of CNSC East Regional Office and Service Head of the CSNC Garoua-Boulai Trucker Accommodation Centre.

The CNSC Garoua-Boulai Trucker Accommodation Centre offers basic amenities to ensure cross-border trade actors have a comfortable stay. Besides its parking lot with a capacity of 150 trucks, this facility is equipped with an administrative block, living quarters with 10 self-contained rooms, an eatery, a mosque and a toilet block. The facility is equally secured and has electricity and water supply installed. To ensure the protection of persons and goods, the Garoua Boulai Trucker Accommodation Centre has a security service in place.