DESCENT OF MINISTER JULIEN PALUKU TO NGOBILA BEACH
Continuing his mission of inspecting border posts and ensuring compliance with the series of government measures prohibiting the temporary importation of certain products to safeguard local industries, the Minister of Foreign Trade visited Beach Ngobila this Friday.
On site Julien Paluku Kahongya brought together the heads of operational services, then visited the Malebo pool section; objective, to become familiar with the conditions in which the agents work to properly control all the goods that leave and enter the Democratic Republic of Congo.
As a matter of urgency, the Government must provide Beach Ngobila with warehouses that no longer exist and refrigerated containers to enable the Congolese Office of Control-OCC and the General Directorate of Customs and Excise-DGDA to work well, said the Minister of Commerce, while evoking the need to modernize the port of the National Office of Transport-ONATRA through a public-private partnership.
Returning to government measures prohibiting the temporary importation of certain products including beers, soft drinks, tiles, earthenware and gray cement, the Minister of Foreign Trade praised the work done by the services to carry out these restrictive measures.
Note that the Minister was accompanied by the Director General of the OCC, Étienne Tshimanga surrounded by his experts but also experts from his office.
