feral trade coffee El Volador
from Finca El Volador Coatapec, Mexico
Coffee farmed by Álvaro Soberanes at sky high altitude of 1500m, under old growth leguminous trees which pump nitrogen back into the soil, nothing more needs to be added. The farm is called El Volador which means the Flying One. The Cerro de la Campana area near Coatepec, Veracruz provides almost perfect conditions for coffee growing, producing one of the best coffees in Mexico if not the World. ferally traded since: 22/11/12.
FER-2486
Feral Trade Bristol, UK to Casco Art Institute Utrecht, Netherlands
dispatched 31/10/18 delivered 02/11/18
coffee El Volador shipment FER-2486
REMARKS: on occasion of Casco's first annual assembly: Elephants in the Room. QTY: 2 units at bag each
FROM: Feral Trade in Bristol, UK
http://feraltrade.org
TO: Casco Art Institute in Utrecht, Netherlands
http://casco.art
SENDER:kate rich
RECEIVER: Binna Choi
REQUESTED: to ship between 25/10/18 and 03/11/18
INVOICE:invoice-2486
STATUS: delivered Casco Art Institute 02/11/18
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COURIER: Alvaro Soberanes  tres guerras ground transport  Solori Forwarding  ALDEBARAN container ship  JAG-UFS  kate rich  kate rich 
TOTAL ROUTE:  Finca El Volador-Veracruz Port-Southhampton Port-Coffee Compass roasters-Feral Trade-Pervasive Media Studio-Bristol Temple Meads station-London Paddington station-Da Vinci House-London St Pancras station-Amsterdam Central station-Utrecht Central station-NH Hotel Utrecht--Casco Art Institute

 
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Shipping Facts
FER-2062 import purchase & freight
672 x coffee El Volador 500g baggrossper 500g bag
Price paid to farmer for 420 KG green coffee beans 41,300 MXN at 25 MXN to GBP £1622 £2.41
Transport from Xalapa to Veracruz, 1,600 MXN £65 £0.10
Export permissions, 7,000 MXN £285 £0.42
Fitosanitary permissions 1,500 MXN £61 £0.09
Customs Veracruz 350 USD at 1.43 USD to GBP, a payment made right side of the Brexit referendum June 23rd, after which pound plunged to $1.31, £245 £0.36
Shipping Veracruz to Felixstowe with SFW (Solari Forwarding) 502.70 USD £352 £0.52
Customs clearance uk £35 £0.05
Terminal handling, Felixstowe port £107.6 £0.16
Customs inspection, Felixstowe, when consignment was selected for inspection by Port Health £104.59 £0.16
Handover fee to UK agent JAGFS £75 £0.11
Documentation fee to JAGFS £50 £0.07
HMC entry levy £16.7 £0.02
Port security fee £6.5 £0.01
Delivery by road fom port to roaster Coffee Compass in Littlehampton £102 £0.15
Coffee Compass roasting at £2.40 per kg green beans £1008 £1.50
Road transport roaster to feraltrade at £7.80 per 20.5KG roasted coffee £128 £0.19
Metalised coffee bags at 36p+ VAT £241.92 £0.36
total£4505.31£6.70
Courier Report FER-2486 DISPATCHED: 31/10/18 DELIVERED: 02/11/18 kate rich Hauled 10L olive oil and 2KG coffee in 2 small yet dense backpacks from my flat in central Bristol to Pervasive Media Studios on the harbourside, for PhD supervision meeting. (Travelling by train to Utrecht but flying back, in order to meet 10 box micro-shipment of olive oil on sail ship from Porto direct into Bristol harbour, fingers crossed. https://feraltrade.org/shipment/FER-2471.html). After 2.5 hours intensive meeting, substantial tracts of understanding re the PhD process / practice are conveyed, hopefully each way, and trader departs for another on foot trek to the station, sensibly calculating the bus would be slower. Train to London & overnight accommodation near Farringdon with meta-host and valued friend who is skillfully navigating Halloween, 5 teenagers watching Carrie and a midnight pickup of recently neutered pet rabbits from the vet. Early AM depart for Utrecht goes sleekly except for detained at Eurostar security for carrying an entirely lawful pocket knife of less than 3 inch blade that doesn't lock. A known risky insistence on knowing the law & determination to retrieve the device propels trader into the edgy situation of train departing in 20 minutes and equally strategically stubborn Eurostar security staff as if by magic slowing down the negotiations, which culminates in the woman who is not searching the 2x 5L olive oil backpacks refusing to lift them out of the detention area as they are too heavy, but surprisingly she relents to allow me in to pick them up myself. Shortly afterwards I unexpectedly win the entire encounter, convincing the security employee in charge that while many Opinel knives lock this one doesn't. Knife returned and I catch the Amsterdam-direct bound train with minutes to spare, sharing travel tips with a Dutch woman kindly queuing behind me. [IBEX report: Carte Grise +1]. Changed to a local train from Rotterdam to Utrecht central, from where bags are gladly depot at the nearby NH hotel & 2 days later lugged on 20 minute walk to deliver at Casco.
onward transit of FER-2062 from Finca El Volador arrived Feral Trade 2016-07-26
Alvaro Soberanes Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 14:51:52 -0600 From: Álvaro Soberanes Subject: Re: news please! Hello Kate, I have a quotation for shipment, but there are details to change: is about 550 usd. (LCL. Cafe . VOL. 1.87m3 // 420 KGS) (with soher again) This don´t include transport from Xalapa to veracruz port. I will use tres guerras trasnport, the quoted 2000 pesos (100 usd aprox) I´m waiting for custom agents´s prices. (with beristain again) Permisions for export are on the way (2 ministry of agriculture and 1 tresury-customs), and then i´ll calculate coffee price with accuracy. Almost there.
kate rich Lost contact with farmer while coffee on its multi-week journey from port of Veracuz MEX to Southampton UK via Hamburg, in the dutch registered container ship ALDEBARAN https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/245882000. Veracruz shipping agents SFW luckily supplied the missing paperwork although a mini bureaucratic panic ensued when the ALDEBARAN docked 10 days before expected in Felixstowe, perhaps due to a speed trans-shipment in Hamburg, with trader still lacking the commercial invoice required for customs clearance UK side despite supplying phytosanitary certificate, certificate of origin, export declaration, bill of lading & maritime instructions card. Fortunately the invoice documentation arrived with speed from the forwarder SFW in Mexico, only for trader to be advised that the shipment was being held by Port Health for unknown inspection, which was done of course at the trader's expense of £104.59. After Port Health release the shipment then jumped through a mindwarp of bureacratic hoops due to technicalities in the documents (forwarder error), draft document only of the HBL waybill supplied (forwarder refused to update, then relented) & news from Hamburg that forwarder had put the whole shipment on hold complaining of incomplete payment. A 29-email exchange with UK freight agent JAGFS helped unravel the crazed train of supply. Eventually trader texted the farmer in Mexico & all was mysteriously resolved, coffee trucked to the roaster Coffee Compass in Littlehampton on July 20th.
coffee El Volador transit: Finca El Volador to Feral Trade
           
freight and handling coffee El Volador to Casco Art Institute sponsored by
  
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