That compared with 1,357,101 tonnes delivered to ports during the same period of the 2002/03 season, according to official BCC data.
Abundant July rains in 2002 and 2003 helped pave the way for big crops in Ivory Coast, which grows about 40 percent of the world's cocoa, despite a civil war that forced many migrant workers from farms.
"We are pretty satisfied with this season which has been good yet again," said a pod counter, who was in the west of Ivory Coast and works for a British cocoa exporter.
"However we are more pessimistic on production for next season which, according to our calculations, will be between 850,000 and 900,000 tonnes for the main crop," he said.
The arrivals figures show production is nearing the 1.4 million tonne record set in the 1999/2000 season although farmers have said there is little left to harvest.
There has been cocoa smuggling from Ivory Coast western rebel-held territory into Guinea and also from eastern regions into Ghana, where the fixed farmgate price for cocoa is higher than in Ivory Coast.