Morocco will invest 17 billion CFA francs into a logistics platform 5 hectares from the Abidjan port to export fruit and vegetables. This investment is for exporting products to promising North American and Middle Eastern markets, until now Europe has been the Ivory Coast’s only outlet.
A major player in the sector, and Africa’s number one mango and second banana and pineapple producer, the Ivory coast is opening up to new opportunities to develop the sector which has recently suffered from the crises the country has been through. Ivory Coast banana production has been in heavier competition with Latin American bananas since preferential regimes were removed in agreements between the EU and ACP (African Caribbean Pacific).