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ABIDJAN PORT: RECORD GROWTH OF +16% IN 2025
In 2025, the Abidjan Port confirmed its status as an essential logistics hub in West Africa. With overall growth of +16.1%, the Abidjan port platform reached a new milestone and strengthened its regional leadership.
According to the net data recorded in 2025, total traffic reached 46.6 million tonnes, compared with 40.1 million tonnes in 2024. This significant growth reflects the confidence of economic operators, the strengthened competitiveness of the port tool and the stability of the Ivorian economy.
A key driver of national economic performance
National traffic remains the main driver of this growth. It recorded 28,552,023 tonnes in 2024 compared with 34.2 million tonnes in 2025, representing an increase of +19.8%.
This performance confirms the strategic role of the Abidjan Port as the main gateway for Côte d’Ivoire’s international trade. Industry, commerce, energy and many other sectors benefit directly from the modernization of the port platform.
A strong and ambitious container dynamic
Container traffic continued its upward trend with 1,697,131 TEUs handled in 2025, compared with 1,646,304 TEUs in 2024, representing an increase of +3.1%.
For the second consecutive year, the Abidjan Port largely exceeded the threshold of one million containers handled. This performance consolidates its position among the most dynamic platforms in the West African sub-region.
The objective is now clear: to reach 2 million TEUs by 2027 and to sustainably join the ranking of the world’s top 100 container ports.
Transit traffic to Mali and Burkina Faso strongly rebounds
The Abidjan Port also confirms its role as a strategic corridor for landlocked countries.
Transit traffic reached 3.92 million tonnes in 2025, representing a remarkable increase of +34.1%.
Despite some socio-political tensions observed in the past, commercial and economic relations with hinterland countries remain strong and resilient. This resilience is now reflected in a vigorous recovery of flows and stronger regional trade.
In Burkina Faso, traffic recorded 2,058,803 tonnes in 2024 compared with 2,214,648 tonnes in 2023, representing a decrease of 155,845 tonnes (-6.6%). However, in 2025 this traffic increased to 2,400,111 tonnes, representing a rise of +16.6%.
This evolution reflects the gradual restoration of flows and the consolidation of the Abidjan corridor as the preferred route for Burkinabe economic operators.
Regarding Mali, traffic reached 835,216 tonnes in 2024, compared with 671,953 tonnes in 2023, representing an increase of 163,263 tonnes (+24.29%). Growth continued in 2025, reaching 1.47 million tonnes, representing an exceptional increase of +76.4%.
This dynamic reflects the sustained confidence of Malian operators and the central role of the Abidjan Port in supplying the Malian economy.
These results strengthen the positioning of the Abidjan Port as a major logistics hub serving sub-regional economies, particularly those of the hinterland.
A controlled adjustment in transshipment
In a context of strong regional competition, transshipment traffic slightly declined by -1.9%, falling from 8.63 million tonnes to 8.46 million tonnes in 2025, mainly due to congestion, insufficient access roads and difficulties in accessing land reserves.
A modernized platform looking toward the future
Since 2012, more than 1,000 billion CFA francs have been invested in the modernization of port infrastructures.
These structuring investments have profoundly transformed the platform: increased reception capacity, improved productivity, enhanced operational security and alignment with international standards.
Today, the Abidjan Port has world-class infrastructures and a strengthened strategic position on Africa’s Atlantic coast.
A new investment cycle, currently under study, will further consolidate this trajectory and sustainably support the growth of trade over the coming decades.
