The Port of Buchanan is a deep-water harbour built in the early 1960s for the LAMCO iron-ore operation that ran trains from the Nimba mountains down to the coast. The mine closed in 1989 and the port fell quiet for years, but it has come back to life: ArcelorMittal has restored the railway and is again shipping iron ore from the Yekepa area, and the port also handles general cargo and rubber from the nearby Firestone plantations.
You cannot wander freely inside the port itself, but the seafront road gives a good view of the cranes, the ore stockpiles and the bulk carriers waiting offshore. It is an oddly compelling sight in a country where heavy industry is otherwise mostly absent. The contrast — a major industrial port in a small, quiet provincial town — tells much of Buchanan's story.