MOBILIS SAS, a French company specialised in designing, developing, manufacturing and supplying navigation aid equipment (marking buoy, tide predictions, weather stations, etc.) and equally one of the world leaders in the domain, has just supplied a top-notch equipment to PAK. It is the DB8000 buoy, a state-of-the-art equipment that can record oceanic, meteorological and continental data with high precision, even in a hostile environment. On 8 December 2020, MOBILIS SAS engineers together with their peers of PAK, especially from the Land Planning and Environment Department (DAME) and the Technical DEPARTMENT (DT) completed the assembly of the floating laboratory ready for use. A thorough and technical onshore task that took hours.

It is said that the acquisition of this multifunctional buoy equipped with latest generation parts among which sensors and acquisition modules and solar plates for its energy autonomy that will improve the conditions of navigability and accessibility of PAK on the one hand and also improve the safety of goods and people thanks to the data that will help prevent accidents and other calamities at sea. It is worth remembering that on 15 February 2019, the General Manager of PAK received from the French ambassador to Cameroon hydrographic and nautical charts designed to improve the navigation conditions, the competitiveness and traffic in the Port of Kribi.

Thereafter, PAK, through DAME, launched a call for tender in May 2017 to supply equipment for collecting oceanic, meteorological and continental data in the Port Authority of Kribi. MOBILIS has deployed AIS Type 3 transponders with solar autumn power on all buoys in the Douala channel. These buoys communicate in real time with the control centre of the Port of Douala. Port officials are thus alerted in the event of a buoy failing or slipping.