Unloading fish Benin style

In Liberia, small ships bring boxes of frozen fish into the port from big factory ships at sea. The boxes are loaded one-at-a-time by hundreds of casual labourers into non-refrigerated containers carried by horribly maintained lorries. The whole operation is very noisy and very messy and disorganised, and the frozen fish start melting immediately. In Benin, just along the West African coast, the same operation is astonishingly well organised and quick - the boxes of frozen fish are lifted into waiting, well maintained, refrigerated trucks by fork-lift trucks. The whole operation is silent and effortless, and involves about three men. I am bemused why there is such a difference between similar West African countries - Liberia has plenty of working fork-lift trucks and refrigerated lorries after all. Just one more difference between the two countries. Olly