Project record

Port of Cotonou Terminal 5 bulk terminal

Port Autonome de Cotonou rendering of Terminal 5 with bulk berths, storage silos and reclaimed terminal land

Port Autonome de Cotonou; Terminal 5 project rendering, not construction progress

Port Autonome de Cotonou's current Terminal 5 page reports 69% physical progress and 72% overall progress. The same page still carries a 2021-2024 period, so the percentage is evidence that construction remains incomplete rather than a reliable finish date. Concrete Layer Innovations identifies CHEC's marine works as a 350-metre extension of the existing breakwater and an 891-metre revetment protected by ACCROPODE II units.

Project signal

Construction in Benin

The live percentages are an undated snapshot, not a revised programme. Terminal 5 should remain at construction until PAC publishes a dated schedule and acceptance records for reclamation, nautical access, berths and opening.

Current status The port authority reports 69% physical progress and 72% overall progress, while its published 2021-2024 delivery period is no longer current Source confidence Confirmed

Location

Benin / Africa

Segment

Port infrastructure

Status

The port authority reports 69% physical progress and 72% overall progress, while its published 2021-2024 delivery period is no longer current / Confirmed

Evidence reviewed

20 July 2026

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Project anatomy

Scope, counterparties, and execution logic

Client / authority
Port Autonome de Cotonou
Delivery parties
China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd (construction and design), Inros Lackner SE (continuing owner-representative assignment), Concrete Layer Innovations (ACCROPODE II sublicense and technical assistance)
Contract route
Port Autonome de Cotonou awarded the Terminal 5 construction package to CHEC. A separate owner-representative continuity contract was awarded to Inros Lackner in October 2025. The African Development Bank's EUR 80 million facility, signed in February 2025, supports Terminal 5 and the separate Zongo access and parking project; it is financing evidence, not the CHEC contract value.
Execution window
The port authority page still lists 2021-2024, while the specialist armour-system record describes works beginning in 2023 and continuing beyond its 2023-2025 date band. AfDB's live project record remains Ongoing with a planned completion date of 12 February 2028. A current contractor programme or owner completion date is not public.
Works package
A new 20-hectare bulk terminal and improved nautical access. The evidenced marine envelope includes a 350-metre extension of the existing breakwater, an 891-metre revetment protecting the reclaimed terminal area and about 22,000 cubic metres of 2, 3 and 4 cubic metre ACCROPODE II units. AfDB also identifies basin dredging, access-channel widening and extension of the terminal's western sea wall within the financed modernisation scope.
Marine interfaces
The delivery chain runs from offshore and shoreline protection through reclamation, berth construction and nautical access. ACCROPODE placement extends below water to a published maximum toe level of -6.09 metres. Dredging, channel widening, hydrographic acceptance and navigation release must be tracked separately from armour production and land formation.
Commercial read
PAC publishes a project cost of CFAF 98.3 billion excluding tax; AfDB records a separate EUR 80 million facility for Terminal 5 and Zongo access. Neither amount is a verified final CHEC contract account. Current opportunity is more likely to sit in remaining marine completion, survey, environmental close-out, utilities, cargo systems, testing and operating readiness than in an unawarded greenfield package.
Next milestone
A dated owner update should reconcile the current percentage, remaining marine scope and revised finish, followed by as-built protection works, accepted dredging and hydrography, berth and terminal handover and first sustained operations.

Material change register

What changed, when, and what it proves

Only source-bound events that alter phase, scope, counterparties, delivery, completion, commissioning, or acceptance are listed. A change can advance the record without proving the next gate.

PAC continued the owner-representative assignment

The definitive award notice names Inros Lackner for continuity of the owner-representative mission on Terminal 5. It supports continued project oversight but does not establish completion or accepted marine quantities.

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AfDB and PAC signed the modernisation financing

The EUR 80 million facility supports Terminal 5 and the separate Zongo access project. The later finance signature does not reset the construction start, define the CHEC contract value or prove marine completion.

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Delivery watch

Evidence needed next

A dated owner update should reconcile the current percentage, remaining marine scope and revised finish, followed by as-built protection works, accepted dredging and hydrography, berth and terminal handover and first sustained operations.

Decision watchpoints

  • Date and measurement basis behind the 69% physical and 72% overall progress figures
  • Final breakwater-extension and revetment quantities and as-built geometry
  • Reclamation and terminal-platform settlement acceptance
  • Basin and access-channel dredging quantities, material route and environmental close-out
  • Accepted post-dredge hydrography and controlling navigation depth
  • Quay, fender, mooring, drainage, utility and cargo-system handover
  • Owner acceptance, opening date and first sustained bulk operations

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Record control

Evidence reviewed date is not a project-event date.

IMWO changes phase, participants, scope, completion, or acceptance wording only when a dated source establishes the change. The review date records when the evidence set was checked; it does not claim that physical work changed on that date.

Evidence reviewed 20 July 2026 Sources in this record 6

Source record

PAC's live project page controls the current 69% physical and 72% overall figures, the 20-hectare bulk-terminal description, the CFAF 98.3 billion excluding-tax project cost and the stale 2021-2024 period. CLI supplies project-specific field evidence for CHEC's 350-metre breakwater extension, 891-metre revetment, underwater armour placement and 22,000 cubic metres of ACCROPODE II units. AfDB records the February 2025 financing signature, Ongoing status and 12 February 2028 planned completion. PAC's environmental report keeps Terminal 5 separate from the north-quay programme, which has its own 154-metre basin extension, 1,400 metres of quay renewal and -15-metre dredging basis. Those north-quay quantities are not assigned to Terminal 5.

Phase: construction. Evidence reviewed: 20 July 2026.

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