Port of Abidjan Community System (PCS)

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Ship calls and cargo manifests at the Port of Abidjan run at 100% digital. Container release runs at 0% — because the payment at the end of the chain is still made in person, which the single window itself calls a break in the concept.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence🏛️ Official

what does this mean?

The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →

Run byGuichet Unique du Commerce Exterieur de Cote d'Ivoire (GUCE-CI), with the Port Autonome d'Abidjan

Scale🌍 National

Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 5 more in Abidjan · 🪪 Digital government guide · 📡 Data & IoT projects

The Guichet Unique du Commerce Exterieur (GUCE-CI) operates a Port Community System linking shipping lines, forwarders, consignees, terminals, customs and banks at the ports of Abidjan and San-Pedro. Modules went live one at a time: e-Voyage announces vessels before they enter Ivorian waters, e-Manifest dematerialises the customs manifest and is interconnected with international carriers, e-Movement tracks container moves, while e-Release and e-Booking are still to come. GUCE-CI was still finalising the system in mid-2025 and holding design workshops with forwarders and consignees in September and October that year.

Live 📅 since 2025

📊 Impact

At GUCE-CI's own mid-term review on 26 February 2026, use rates at Abidjan stood at 100% for e-Voyage and e-Manifest, 60% for e-Movement and 0% for e-Release; San-Pedro lagged at 67%, 67% and 30%. GUCE-CI put the system overall at 80% functional. No source quantifies the time saved.

🎓 Lesson

A single window that stops short of payment leaves the queue where it always was. GUCE-CI says so itself: « Si en bout de chaine, le paiement doit se faire physiquement, ca casse un peu le concept ».

📡 Data & IoT Digital government

Sources

↗ CIO Mag (media)2 March 2026. Reports the module-by-module use rates for Abidjan and San-Pedro used in the impact field, the e-Manifest milestone (« L'e-Manifest, ca fait 12 ans qu'on en parlait, aujourd'hui on a atteint les 95% de production et d'utilisation »), and the payment gap quote used in the lesson.

↗ GUCE Cote d'Ivoire (operator)Operator site. The 26 February 2026 mid-term review puts overall PCS functionality at 80%, with Director of Studies and Development Abdoulaye Toure quoted: « Nous sommes dans une dynamique d'amelioration continue pour atteindre les 100 % ». e-Voyage is described as fully operational for real-time vessel entry/exit and discharge tracking; the Maritime Single Window (GUM) and transhipment procedures are listed as next.

↗ CIO Mag (media)2 June 2025. Dates the rollout: at this point the PCS was still being completed — « Le GUCE travaille a finaliser le Port Community System, PCS, pour interconnecter tous les acteurs de la chaine logistique ». This is the basis for yearStart 2025 rather than an earlier date; no source found gives a formal launch date for the first module.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Port of Abidjan Community System (PCS)” — Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/abidjan-port-community-system/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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