The company, which has risen to become the leading national distributor of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), surpassing SCTM, presents the balance of a cumulative volume of 18,772 tonnes sold between January and July 2026, thereby securing a market share of 14.12%. 


Despite this position, the network faces a contrasting situation directly attributable to global logistical tensions affecting the country's energy sector and disrupting the regularity of supply flows.

The origin of these disruptions primarily lies in the limitations of national butane gas storage capacities and in the dysfunctions observed at the bottling level in depots. 


Since the beginning of the second quarter of the fiscal year, Tradex Cameroon has recorded a chronic deficit between the operational needs of its network and the tonnages made available to it. To overcome these obstacles, the company indicates it has diversified its partnerships by opening up to private filling centers, optimized its own logistics, and obtained exceptional working hours arrangements in storage infrastructures. The effort has also materialized through the injection of over 300,000 new and secure gas bottles onto the market since the beginning of the year, aiming to fluidify the available stock for consumers.


While many competitors suffer pronounced shortages, the Tradex network maintains its overall operations while monitoring its safety stocks at service stations, welcoming in passing the initiatives of the public operator to expand bottling capacities. Faced with a scissor effect combining intensified demand and severe logistical slowdowns, the company mobilizes all its financial and human resources to restore fluidity to the supply chain.


While acknowledging that the situation is not yet fully normalized, management reaffirms its commitment to market domestic gas at the official price homologated by locality, thereby protecting households' purchasing power, despite conjunctural turbulence.


Ndjomo Carlos

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