Cocoa arrivals at ports in Ivory Coast reached 1,268,964 tonnes between the start of the 2003/04 (October-September) campaign and May 31, official data from the Coffee and Cocoa Bourse (BCC) showed on Monday.
The figure compared with 1,273,011 tonnes delivered to ports during the same period of the 2002/03 season, according to official BCC data.
The figures show that, despite exporters' concerns at the start of the current campaign, the gap between this year's arrivals and those of the previous year has narrowed, with the 2003/2004 figure now just 5,000 tonnes down on 2002/2003.
Last week, BCC figures showed arrivals nearly 15,000 tonnes down on the same period a year ago.
In 2002/03, at the height of a civil war that has left Ivory Coast split between a rebel-held north and a government-controlled south, the country produced a near-record harvest of 1.36 million tonnes.