Abidjan’s fourth bridge will span a stretch of the Ebrié lagoon to connect the communes of Plateau and Adjamé with Yopougon.

"The bridge and the access roads associated with it will facilitate the daily travel of hundreds of thousands of Abidjanese and help to decongest the existing roads,” said Jean Noël Ilboudo, transport engineer in charge of coordinating the project at the African Development Bank.

The bridge will facilitate the movement of goods between the southern part of the city where the port and industrial zone of Vridi are located and the western and northern zones, where new industrial zones are rapidly developing.

It will also be part of a regional transport network linking the port of Abidjan and international corridors, especially to Burkina Faso in the north and to Liberia in the west.  

Construction is expected to start in 2017 for completion in 2020.