{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Place","additionalType":"https://schema.org/Port","name":"Cotonou","identifier":"BJ COO","unlocode":"BJ COO","city":null,"country":"Benin","waterBody":"Bight of Benin; Gulf of Guinea; North Atlantic Ocean","harborSize":"Medium","harborType":"Coastal (Breakwater)","channelDepthMeters":11,"confidenceLevel":null,"coordinates":{"latitude":6.35,"longitude":2.433333},"description":"Run by Africa Global Logistics (AGL, formerly Bolloré), the container terminal at Cotonou (BJ COO) anchors one of West Africa's key transit gateways for the landlocked Sahel. The port handles roughly 90 percent of Benin's foreign trade and feeds onward corridors to Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali and Chad. Container throughput reached about 650,000 TEU recently, and an ongoing expansion is lengthening the quay to around 1,100 metres to lift capacity toward 1 million TEU by 2026. Transit cargo benefits","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com/en/information/seaports/cotonou-port-bj-coo","markdownMirror":"https://www.freight-academy.com/api/md/seaports/en/cotonou-port-bj-coo","source":null,"provider":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Freight Academy","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com"},"quickSummary":"Cotonou · (UN/LOCODE: BJ COO) · Benin · Medium · 11 m"}