Egyptian company delivers 100 buses to Cameroon for 2016 AFCON

The Egyptian ambassador in Cameroon, Sherif Salah Eldin Elleithy, recently supported a delegation from the Egyptian company Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles (MCV) visiting the Cameroonian Minister of Transport, Edgard Alain Mebe Ngo’o. During the meeting, the company specialised in the manufacture of commercial vehicles offered to deliver 100 buses to the Cameroonian government for urban transport during the Africa Women's Cup of Nations, which the country will host between November and December 2016.

This is the 3rd partnership offer made to the Cameroonian government in terms of urban transit within 3 months, with 2 closely related to the organisation of the 2016 African Cup of Nations. Indeed, before MCV, who presents itself as "the first manufacturer of commercial vehicles (bus and truck) in the Middle East and Africa (...) with a production capacity of up to 10,000 buses per year", the Minister of Transport has already met, in February 2016, a delegation of the management of the Brazilian company Marcopolo.

This company, who has been working for almost 3 years now with the government on a urban transport system through BRT (Bus Rapid Transit), is planning to take advantage of the importance of the 2016 Africa Cup of Nations to speed up its project in Cameroon. If this project is approved, "the buses will be in Cameroon by end September, to effectively contribute to the 2016 AfCON", the Brazilian ambassador had specified at the end of the meeting.

On 11 March 2016, it was the turn of the company Industrial Vehicles Corporation (Iveco), an automobile firm based in Turin and owned by American-Italian consortium CNH Industrial, to try to court the Cameroonian urban transport sector. This was done through a service offer made to the Cameroonian Minister of Transport, Alain Edgar Mebe Ngo’o.