Exports of cotton from Ivory Coast totalled 202,836 tonnes during 2008, down about 3% on the same period last year. Ivory Coast's annual cotton output was around 400,000 tonnes before the civil war, but fell to about 150,000 tonnes last season.

Ivory Coast's main port of Abidjan also exports cotton from neighbouring Burkina Faso and Mali. Rail shipments of cotton from Burkina Faso to Abidjan resumed in December 2006 for the first time since a 2002-2003 civil war split in Ivory Coast. Road deliveries restarted in March 2007.