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Key Facts
—First cargo: The Parakou dry port loaded its first containers on June 23, 2026 — cotton packed by handler Atral for state cotton company SODECO, bound for Cotonou and export.
—A decade late: The project was conceived more than ten years ago and finally entered service under Samuel Dossou-Aworet’s Petrolin Group.
—The site: About three kilometres from central Parakou in Borgou: 50 hectares, expandable to 100, with a 6,400-square-metre hangar and roughly 48,000 cubic metres of storage.
