In order to objectively and accurately judge the current situation of logistics in west Africa and further judge its future development needs, due to the lack of statistical data for the large spatial scale of research and economic backwardness, it is significant to judge the construction needs of logistics infrastructure. So this paper put forward improved container generation coefficient method to measure west African foreign trade container generation. Based on west African economic judgment from the world bank, the international monetary fund and the United Nations and other related organizations in the world, it summarized the west African economic situa- tion and forecasted the trend of the future economic development. According to the basic situation of foreign trade of west African countries, by taking the container as the representative, on the basis of the calibration of multifactor variables including the total amount of foreign trade, economic growth, the change rate of containers, the optimum proportion of cases and optimum cases as the weight coefficients, it measured the foreign trade con- tainer generation and logistics requirements in west African countries through the improved container generation coefficient method. On this basis, the paper forecasts the future container production in combination with the e- conomic development trend, and makes reference for the regional traffic development, coastal port construction and further logistics planning in west African countries.