Port · Benin
A vessel calling at Cotonou can post its requirement here — provisions, stores, bunkers, fresh water, waste landing, agency — and receive sealed bids from verified suppliers activated at this port. Suppliers never see the vessel’s name until the business is awarded.
6°22′N · 2°25′E · UN/LOCODE BJCOO
What a vessel arranges at Cotonou
Read off the live directory · distances are great-circle, not sailing routes
2 verified ship chandlers have activated ship supply at Cotonou. Post the requirement — provisions, bonded stores and deck, engine and cabin stores, each line an IMPA-coded catalogue item or a specified manual item with its unit — with the vessel's ETA and payment terms, and each of them prices it sealed. You compare the bids line by line; they never see the vessel's name until you award.
No bunker or water supplier has activated Cotonou yet. The nearest port where a bunker or water supplier is activated is Apapa (NGAPP, NG), 108 km away by great circle. A requirement posted here — bunkers by grade and fresh water, in tonnes or cubic metres, normalised so the offers compare — still counts: it alerts the sourcing desk, which recruits for Cotonou in the order requirements arrive, and the first bunker or water supplier to activate the port takes its requests uncontested.
No waste operator has activated Cotonou yet. The nearest port where a waste operator is activated is Onne (NGONN, NG), 555 km away by great circle. A requirement posted here — MARPOL waste landing by category and volume, priced and documented against the call — still counts: it alerts the sourcing desk, which recruits for Cotonou in the order requirements arrive, and the first waste operator to activate the port takes its requests uncontested.
No port agent has activated Cotonou yet. The nearest port where a port agent is activated is Lome (TGLFW, TG), 135 km away by great circle. A requirement posted here — the agency scope for the call — clearance, husbandry, crew transport, cash to master — quoted on the same defined job — still counts: it alerts the sourcing desk, which recruits for Cotonou in the order requirements arrive, and the first port agent to activate the port takes its requests uncontested.
Supplier coverage at this port
2 verified suppliers activated · 1 of 4 port lines covered
Nearest ports
Great-circle distance from Cotonou (BJCOO) through the UN/LOCODE directory — straight-line, not a sailing route.
