Editing Transport in Ivory Coast (section)

== Maritime transport ==
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Landscape view of the [[Autonomous Port of Abidjan]]

Ivory Coast greatly contributed to developing maritime transport by building two ports on its seaside namely, [[Autonomous Port of Abidjan|autonomous port of Abidjan]], sometimes referred to as ''"lung of Ivorian economy"'', and the San-Pedro port. The total traffic in 2005, by adding importation to exportation, was 18 661 784 tons for autonomous port of Abidjan and 1 001 991 tons for San-Pedro. The autonomous port of Abidjan cover a 770 hectares area and shelters 60% of the country industries. It is the first tuna fishing port in Africa. It contains 36 conventional berths spread over six kilometers of quays providing a capacity of sixty commercial ships with multiple special docks, a container terminal as well as several specialized and industrial berths.<ref>{{Cite web|title = 2.1.1 Cote D'Ivoire Port Autonome d'Abijan - Logistics Capacity Assessment - Wiki - Digital Logistics Capacity Assessments|url = http://dlca.logcluster.org/display/public/DLCA/2.1.1+Cote+D%2527Ivoire+Port+Autonome+d%2527Abijan;jsessionid=1CB9687790AAAD36529113939AEF0A99#id-2.1.1CoteD'IvoirePortAutonomed'Abijan-CoteD'IvoirePortAutonomed'Abijan|website = dlca.logcluster.org|access-date = 2016-01-08}}</ref> The other major port, the San-Pedro port, operates since 1971 and has two quays covering 18,727 m<sup>2</sup> area.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.sanpedro-portci.com/site/page-de-base/port-de-p%C3%AAche|title = Port de pêche|website = Port Autonome de San Pedro - Côte d'Ivoire}}</ref> Apart from those two major ports, there are also small ports at [[Sassandra]], [[Aboisso]], and [[Dabou]].