Reference center in the heart of the Gulf of Guinea
Values??:
- Efficiency
- Professional ethics
- Competitiveness
- Customer focus
- Security

Priorities:
- Develop the port of Douala place a culture of accountability
- Strengthening the security of goods and people in the square Douala Port
- Improve performance and competitiveness of the port of Douala
- Consolidate the leading position in the sub-region

Its partners:
- Government
- Donors
- Chargers
- The operators of the port

The PAD is responsible for:
1. Overall coordination of port activities
2. Assistance and the accommodation of ships and goods
3. Work equipment, expansion, maintenance of that port, and the creation and development of industrial zones port
4. Management, maintenance and renewal of port facilities that are affected
5. Security and police from operating port
6. The project management work entrusted to specialized companies, including dredging
7. Promotion of the port
8. Promote sub-regional integration

Since the 15th century, the port of Douala has been an international activity that is now the main seaport on the Atlantic coast of Cameroon and the Continent, midway between North Africa and South Africa .
Port estuary situated 04 ° 03'5 N and 09 ° 41'8 longitude east, the Port of Douala has an area of ??1000ha of which 600 are in operation. Its management, promotion, marketing is provided by the Port of Douala.

creation
The Autonomous Port of Douala (PAD) is a company with public capital has legal personality and financial autonomy, created June 15, 1999 by Decree No. 99/130. It follows from Law No. 98/021 of 24 December 1998 on the organization of the port sector.

missions
The CSA is responsible for managing, promoting and marketing the Port of Douala. As such, he is responsible for:
• assistance and the accommodation of ships;
• capital works, maintenance of that expansion port and the creation and development of industrial zones port;
• Management, maintenance and renewal of port facilities that are affected;
• security and police operations port operations;
• the project management work entrusted to specialized companies, including dredging;
• the promotion of the port.