page_title: Abidjan Transport Company
section_title: Means of production
hierarchical_section_title: Abidjan Transport Company / Means of production
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Autobus fabriqué en Côte d'Ivoire par SOTRA Industries.English: Bus built in Côte d'Ivoire by SOTRA Industries.
context_page_description: The Abidjan Transport Company is the public transit provider for Abidjan, Ivory Coast and its suburbs. It is the first urban transport company organized in West Africa. SOTRA is a company that manages transit through its bus and water bus fleet. This company was created on December 16, 1960, to manage all modes of surface transportation, which were previously provided by private interests. Its status is that of a mixed economy company.
context_section_description: SOTRA has six service centers and vehicle line management, a maintenance shop waterbuses, a central workshop to renovate the bodywork and large bodies of vehicles, three control stations, four lagoon stations, forty-five bus terminals and 1,050, 265 breakpoints equipped shelters. The company operates 526 buses in standard mode, 145 express bus mode, 117 buses and 26 passenger boat bus.
  The staff is divided among 223 managers, 355 senior technicians, 1,657 supervisors and 1,863 employees who work for a network of 68 urban routes, 12 express lines, 3 lines Waterbuses 2 lines Taxi luggage and online school. Average daily travels SOTRA 108,188 km (67,225 mi) and transports 800,000 passengers.
caption: An articulated bus manufactured by SOTRA Industries.
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