On 18 July 2024, the Port of Abidjan’s second container terminal (TC2) handled its one millionth container (TEU), after just one and a half years in operation.
At a ceremony organised to celebrate this achievement, Dr Titi PALÉ, representative of the Director General of the Port Autonome d’Abidjan and Director of Sales, Marketing and Communications, stressed that this performance promises good prospects for the future. She attributed this success to the major investments made to position the Port of Abidjan as a dynamic and competitive port platform.
‘Since TC2 was commissioned in November 2022, its ever-increasing performance has been clear for all to see. Better still, these judicious and necessary investments are boosting the competitiveness of the port of Abidjan throughout the West African sub-region. The results alone speak for themselves’, declared Dr Titi PALÉ.
Mr Koen De BACCKER, Managing Director of Côte d’Ivoire Terminal, the concessionaire for TC2, expressed his gratitude to the Abidjan Port Authority for the trust placed in his company. He recalled the sustained efforts of his team to achieve this milestone in such a short space of time.
‘This milestone marks the culmination of 594 days during which each of the 440 ships received, each container loaded and unloaded, represented a challenge taken up with passion and courage by all our teams’, he revealed.
In addition, Mr Koen De BACCKER announced the imminent arrival of six new RTGs (gantry cranes) to boost TC2’s container handling capacity, bringing the total number of these handling machines to 24.
In 2023, the Port of Abidjan will have recorded traffic of 1,238,195 TEU at its two container terminals (Abidjan Terminal and Côte d’Ivoire Terminal), compared with 840,926 TEU in 2022, an increase of 47.3%. This progress has enabled Abidjan to join the circle of ports handling more than 1 million containers a year.
