Africa’s exports, which accounted for 3.9 percent of global banana shipments, grew
by 2.4 percent in 2012 as exports reached 649 000 tonnes. Côte d’Ivoire, the largest
exporter in the region, shipped 339 000 tonnes of bananas in 2012, or 6.0 percent more
than in 2011, while exports from Cameroon, the second largest African exporter,
declined by 1.0 per cent to 246 000 tonnes.