Abidjan Port Scenes Gallery

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Abidjan is the chief port, capital, and largest city of Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). It lies along the Ebrie Lagoon, which is separated from the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic by the Vridi Plage sandbar.

Abidjan port is the largest, most modern port in West Africa. It has the vital combination of a central and accessible location as well as a developed transport infrastructure.

Thanks to the opening of the Vridi canal, Abidjan freshwater port handles 90% of the commercial trade to and from Cote d'lvoire.

Abidjan imports consists mainly of consumerables such as foodstuffs, equipment, machinery, manufactured goods (plastics/building materials,cosmetics) and pharmaceuticals.

Abidjan port exports consist of commodities such as cocoa, coffee, rubber, cotton, timber, fruit, fish - frozen and tinned and vegetables.

The port of Abidjan has in total 6km of quay with 34 berths including specialised terminals for containers, timber, fruits, cereals and hydrocarbons.

San Pedro Port Scenes Gallery

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San Pedro is predominantly an export port for timber and other agricultural projects such as cocoa, rubber, coffee, cotton and palm products.

San Pedro ships more cocoa than Abidjan and close to half of the country's cocoa production is exported through the port.

Heavy investment in the area surrounding the port including new cocoa sheds more than 50,000m2 of un-bonded warehouses and an increase in storage capacity has attracted further trade.

San Pedro port traffic is composed of 86% export cargoes; timber logs, sawn timber (mahogany, iroko, sipo, obeche, and makore), coffee and cocoa beans, palm oil, rubber and 14 % import cargoes; wheat, cement cargo (clinker, gypsum) and rice.

With the rapid expansion of palm oil and rubber plantations in the area and the announced commissioning of a railway between San Pedro and Man, a city located in the middle of important mineral deposits & the cocoa belt, extension of the harbour is high on the agenda.

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