Burkina Faso, a leading producer of cotton `s sub-Saharan Africa without access to the sea, will export its production through the ports of Tema and Lomé and Abidjan either because of post-election crisis in Côte d'Ivoire, it was learned Wednesday (January 19, 2011) an official source.
"Because of the crisis (Ivory Coast), we reroute the evacuation of our cotton to the ports of Lome (Togo) and Tema (Ghana). It is of course additional costs, "said the press Celestine Tiendrébéogo, Director General of the League of fibers and textiles
Burkina Faso (SOFITEX), the largest cotton company in the country.
"Today we can not provide these goods at the port in Abidjan because he is a potential risk that no cotton is exported to a problem or even ship it can not find all the necessary security at port facilities, "he argues.
He said the extra reach 25 FCFA (1 EUR = 656 FCFA) per kilogram of cotton fiber.
Wearing Abidjan, sea outlet through which the Burkina Faso but also Mali and Niger, landlocked country `s Africa` s west, exporting and importing goods, served in the past two years at ` evacuation of 60% of Burkinabe cotton. Burkina
which exports 80% of its cotton to Turkey and countries in Asia in this year produced 475,000 tonnes, down from 530,000 tons in 2010. Some
20,000 tons of goods in Burkina Faso are currently blocked at the port of Abidjan, according to sources close to the Burkina Shippers Council (CBC).
The port in Abidjan is one of eleven "entity" sanctioned by the Ivorian economic `European Union has recognized, as almost all of the international community, Alassane Ouattara from the presidential winner Nov. 28 in Cote d` Ivoire , and asked the outgoing head of state Laurent Gbagbo to step down, that which he refuses.
Source: abc Burkina No. 406
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