Petroleum Products into Freetown, Sierra Leone

Six importers, one jetty, six hundred thousand tonnes a year

Sierra Leone's regulator recorded 314,897 tonnes of petroleum product imports in the first half of 2026, shared between six licensed oil marketing companies: the largest holds 27 per cent, the next 24, then 17, 15, 8 and 8. The cargoes arrive at the Kissy oil jetty, which takes vessels up to 35,000 dwt on 11.2 metres of draught, in parcels that have ranged from 2,000 tonnes on a part-laden MR to 30,000 tonnes on two ships in a single delivery. Most product is bought delivered from trading houses, split at Lomé's ship-to-ship hub into parcels for the smaller West African ports, and priced on a regulated 27-component build-up over Platts. Pump prices are set monthly by the regulator, so an importer's margin is made on the landed cost and on credit, not on the retail price.

CBIL brokers gasoline (92 and 95 RON), 10 ppm gasoil and Jet A-1 into Freetown for a named importer, on CFR or CIF terms, from a named loading terminal with the independent inspector's certificate at loading and payment by letter of credit. We do not work paper offers: a cargo we arrange has a terminal, a vessel, a quantity and a buyer before anything is priced. The same desk works Monrovia and Conakry, where the state importers buy in comparable parcels, and our chartering desk prices the product tanker for the voyage.

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