The port of Lomé (Port Code:TGLFW) is strategically positioned and the only port on the West-African coast from which several cities can be reached by road within one day. It offers the advantage of moving goods within reasonable timeframe at a very competitive cost. Close to 17 m deep, the Port of Lomé is the only deep-water port on the West-African coast that can accommodate new generation vessels (up to 14,500 containers). 
Lomé is the only port in West Africa that has been recognized by ECOWAS as a Free Trade Zone. The handling and transfer of the goods in the port are carried out relatively without customs constraints thereby helping to save appreciable time in operations. There is also in place a simplified and expeditious nature of administrative formalities which is the outcome of efforts to simplify the goods removal process. For landlocked countries such as Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, the port of Lomé is the transit port par excellence. If the annual traffic was initially planned for a 400,000 mt, Lomé currently handles an overall traffic estimated over 15 million mt (15,413,487 mt in 2015).