Cameroon's committee charged with facilitating movement of goods within the sub-region held its second session last Friday to map out strategies for the coming year.

Members of the National Committee to ease the transportation of goods within countries of the Central African Economic and Monetary Union (CEMAC), have pledged their readiness to work toward surmounting the daily challenges people face moving or transporting goods from one part of the country or sub-region to the other. They made their determination last Friday during the committee's second meeting in Yaounde.

The aim of Friday's meeting, according to the committee's president Jean Pierre Soh, was to elaborate and adopt the 2010 plan of action of the technical committee so that they could ably play its role of facilitating the inter-state transportation of goods within the sub-region.

Mr. Soh said conscious of the numerous problems transporters face in moving goods, among which is routes, the committee could not but stretch limits to remedy the situation. He said the committee, divided into three commissions (Technical, Infrastructure and Documentation and Security) seeks to review the procedure of transportation and propose solutions to the government so that the procedure could be harmonised with those of other countries. He stressed that the challenge would be to clear most, if not all, the speed brakes in the Douala - Bangui and Douala - N'Djamena corridors. "Each country of the sub-region has its own committee and all seek to propose to government the necessary measures to deal with the problem", Mr. Soh said. He said besides developing the route network to live up to standards, another way of surmounting the transportation obstacle within the sub-region would be to harmonise documentation.