Its industries include brewing, textile production, and palm-oil processing. Modern artificial deepwater port facilities were completed in 1965 at Cotonou to serve both Benin and Togo. The port of Cotonou is a deep water port mainly used for the imports of cereals and gypsum used in the construction and agricultural industries. Cotton and kapok are the main exports. Today the port zone covers 400,000m2.
Cotonou port offers both bonded and unbonded warehousing.
Bonded Unbonded Covering an area of 57,000m2 with a container depot of 65,000 m2 and a free zone reserved for Niger, Mali nad Burkina Faso. Numerous warehouses and storeyards in the third and fourth one. TBC OTAL's Service OTAL's ro-ro service calls at Cotonou every 13 days. Cotonou port has one ro-ro berth available along with warehousing, cold storage and container handling areas nearby. OTAL has a dedicated terminal terminal offers a full range of shore handling services exclusive to OTAL customers and which is managed by our agency office, Antrak Benin.