HISTORY
The history of the Maritime Industry of Togo is closely linked to the colonial history of the country. It started with the Germans who build in 1890 a wooden wharf on metal piles. Following a fire, the building will be replaced in 1904 by a second wharf steel structures on concrete piles. But wharf will be carried in 1911 by a tidal wave. This led to the construction in 1912 of a third wharf with a bent bridge, but also damaged by a storm in 1924. At the end of the First World War, a Franco-British joint operation forces the Germans holed up Atakpame (capital of the Plateaux region), to capitulate as soon as August 1914. Togo is under mandate of the League of Nations (SDN). By decision of the League taken July 10, 1919, France and England shared the occupation of the territory of Togo. This is how the French build another wharf whose operation started in 1928. In 1959, , so that the Togolese authorities decided to equip the Togo of a deep water port,