Case Study · 03 of 05
Cameroon CAMCIS
Korea's First Government PPP Export
Case Study · 03 of 05
Cameroon had already committed to ASYCUDA World. Paper-based clearance required 11 separate documents; preparation alone took 12 days. Total import clearance averaged 18 days.
As the trade hub for landlocked Chad and the Central African Republic, every day of friction cascaded across the region.
Korea's first e-government PPP. A special-purpose company (CAMPASS) — CUPIA plus a local partner — entered a EUR 46M agreement with the Cameroonian government, with EUR 32M sub-contracted to CUPIA.
Four execution pillars: paperless service, two-track customs control, organizational capacity building, and 24/7 IT operation. Linked into the GUCE single window for four electronic and four scanned documents.
Required documents reduced from 11 to 8. Import clearance time cut by about 20%. Revenue rose roughly 70% under CAMCIS, with user satisfaction averaging 4.95 out of 5 across 2,704 internal users and 640 registered companies.
CAMCIS went 100% online from day one. Day one: 7 declarations. Day two: over 100. Day six: daily revenue broke the old system's all-time record. It took years to convince people. The numbers did it in six days.
"Without a doubt, the most important professional experience of my life."
Séraphin Deffo Deffo — Director of IT Division, Cameroon Customs
