Reliable Ship Agency and Crew Handling Solutions at the Port of Limbe, Cameroon

Limbe (formerly Victoria) sits at the foot of Mount Cameroon on the Ambas Bay, facing Bioko. It is not a container port; it is the country's petroleum and ship-repair coast. The SONARA refinery at Cape Limboh receives crude by tanker at an offshore mooring buoy and ships refined products from its jetty, so the traffic is tankers, product carriers and the tugs and supply boats that serve them. Next to the refinery, the CNIC Limbe shipyard (Chantier Naval et Industriel du Cameroun) operates a floating dock and repair quays for vessels and offshore units working in the Gulf of Guinea. The historic Bota wharf handles small general-cargo vessels, supply boats and the ferry and fishing traffic, and a deep-sea port has long been planned for the bay.

For the offshore operator this makes Limbe the natural base for the Rio del Rey and Bakassi fields and for units transiting to Malabo: a repair yard, a refinery terminal, a supply base and an agency office within a few kilometres. For a tanker calling at SONARA, the practical questions are the buoy mooring, the hose connection and the weather window, not a channel draft.

Cameroon Diving Services keeps an office in Limbe. We support the SBM and jetty with mooring, hose and hull inspections, do hull cleaning and propeller polishing for tankers waiting at anchor, provide in-water inspections and afloat repairs alongside the CNIC yard when a vessel does not need to dock, and act as agent for vessels at the refinery, the wharf and the anchorage.