feral trade coffee Nonualco
from Codecano San Pedro Nonualco, El Salvador
Borbonne coffee (Arabica) shadegrown in high-altitude volcanic San Pedro Nonualco, El Salvador, by Cooperativa de Caficultores Nonualcos R.L. (CODECANO). Roasted and packaged by CODECANO on location. Ground or beans. http://www.feraltrade.org/coffee. ferally traded since: 24/02/05.
FER-1303
Lui Velazquez Tijuana, Mexico to Materials & Applications Los Angeles, USA
dispatched 17/02/07 delivered 17/02/07
coffee Nonualco shipment FER-1303
REMARKS: returning 1 surplus bag coffee from Lui V to M&A, donation in support of overnight hospitality
QTY: 1 units at bag each
FROM: Lui Velazquez in Tijuana, Mexico
http://www.luivelazquez.org/home.php
TO: Materials & Applications in Los Angeles, USA
http://www.emanate.org
SENDER:kate rich
RECEIVER: jenna didier
REQUESTED: to ship between 16/02/07 and 19/02/07
STATUS: delivered Materials & Applications 17/02/07
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COURIER: Ricardo Andres Yglesias M.  delta airlines  kate rich  kate rich  jenna didier  shannon spanhake  kate rich 
TOTAL ROUTE:  Codecano-San Pedro Nonualco-San Salvador-SAL San Salvador airport-Atlanta airport-LGW-London Heathrow Airport-Cube Microplex-Bristol bus station-Bristol airport-Newark Liberty airport-LAX Los Angeles airport-Materials & Applications-Machine Project-Los Angeles Union Station-San Diego Station-San Ysidro US-Mex border post-Lui Velazquez-Otay Mex-US border post-San Diego-Interstate 5-San Ysidro US-Mex border post-Materials & Applications--Materials & Applications

       
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Shipping Facts
FER-1238 import purchase & freight
434 x coffee Nonualco baggrossper bag
payment to codecano, 200kg coffee ($1600) £883 £2.03
packing, petrol to airport, el salvador ($125) £64 £0.15
shipping delta airlines ($611) £337 £0.78
intl bank transfer fee, Abbey UK to Scotiabank El Sal £25 £0.06
petrol, cube-LHR-cube (93.9p/litre) £25 £0.06
HCH (heathrow) delta agent handling fee £30 £0.07
kingscote freight agent, clearance fee £45 £0.10
UK duty advance fee, paid to kingscote £5 £0.01
UK duty £24 £0.06
UK VAT £0 £0.00
total£1438£3.31
Courier Report FER-1303 DISPATCHED: 17/02/07 DELIVERED: 17/02/07 kate rich Departed Lui Velazquez at 930 AM in the car of downstairs neighbours Lucia and Giacomo, driving their visiting Mexico City artist Hector to LA for overnight joytrip. Saturday morning with presidents holiday long weekend so US border (100m from Lui V) was rammed with waiting traffic. Lucia who is daily crossborder commuter (curator, SD museum of conetemporary art) phoned ahead to check pedestrian queue numbers at San Ysidro (800, massive) & instead headed for Otay smaller border post across town, stopping enroute for oil, gas, air and for Giacomo (architect, Tijuana) to talk to his carpenter. Lucia driving. At Otay Lucia who is fast-track which means bascially handing over all personal data to USA for eternal ambient scrutiny, asked us to disembark as she can only drive through massively reduced fast-track queue if alone. Coffee rode shotgun in paper bag in car boot, Giacomo, Hector & I took the pedestrian crossing, USA begins 50m before the immigration desks, marked by ritzy ground tiles and grotesque public ceramic of mexican dancers. 3 border official desks we took one each, my guy was the asshole and questioned meaninglessly on my middle east travel history, mother's nationality, feelings towards mexico, then what I think of the current war at which point I suggested preferring to keep my answers to myself, tricky in the current situation. After 10 minutes flexing, guy let me through. We rejoined Lucia and car probably 2km from our starting point, 1130AM. Headed fast up the Interstate 5 however passing through Del Mar (last outreach of San Diego, 20 mins later) Lucia got a phone call, important colleague keys were at her house in Tijuana & needed in San Diego, unequivocably right now. No choice, we exited the 5 and looped back heading I5 south, pretty fast by now. Back at the US-Mex border in San Ysidro, Lucia dropped 3 of us off - faster for her to come back through alone, and in car, fast-track for pedestrians having ceased exisiting - and drove the 200m through the unchecked north-south crossing to their Tijuana home. This time we pre-removed all vegetable matters from car, including, my 1 botle tequila, Hector's 1 box apple juice and the feral trade coffee; extreme precaution in case vegetable import materials might send Lucia into Secondary inspection on her re-entry, thus destroying rest of the day. Giacomo, Hector and I crossed the I5 overpass, used Mc DOnalds toilets (25c, nasty) and waited in blazing winter sun, 26 degrees C, near the San Ysidro Jack in the Box where illegal taxis will take you to Los Angeles for 25 USD. Around 1230 we were becoming concerned however Lucia arrived after particularly long lineup. Coffee and other risky vegetables returned to car boot. We then drove to San Diego to drop off the keys, now approx 30km from our starting point and at 1400h made departure for LA for real. There followed 2.5 hours driving thru variable traffics, I5 to the 2, Glenadale blvd and arrived Silverlake at Materials & Applications at 1630, 7.5 hrs since departure & just in time for chinese new years eve closing party of the M&A Bubbles exhibit of giant frontyard inflatables now lit in red for closing exhibition.
onward transit of FER-1279 from Cube Microplex arrived Lui Velazquez 2007-01-19
kate rich walked Cube to bus station with approx 33 kg luggage, largely grocery products (gift & residency supplies). 8AM bus to Bristol airport, check-in was fraught with systematic dangers, detailed in-queue interrogation by US immigration agent and latest handluggage attack at the check-in desk. current offical panic allows strictly 1 carry-on bag including all laptops yet minus any liquids over 100ml, feral trade's luggage was oriented around safely stowing feral liquid goods in transit (1x swiss absinthe, 1x hertekamp jenever dutch gin, 3x cube cola concentrates) plus various uk jams, biscuits and 9x bags coffee for US distribution. however these 3x lightweight and compact check-in bags rocketed over continental airlines' economy limit (2x checked bags) so the desk agents attempted to charge 50 USD penalty fee for the distribution of basically groceries. after some negotation, desk agents provided a large clear plastic bag, 2 grocery-holding bags were placed inside henceforth making offically 1 bag for check-in at the fragile counter, no fee necessary. after this drama flight was relatively smooth, although taking off through massive isobar concentration of colliding cold and warm fronts that had been sparking 80 mph around southwest uk in preceding days. flew 8hrs to newark 'liberty' airport, where passenger and bags moved smoothly through immigration (friendly with jokes) and US customs {claiming only chocolate carried, no-one checked); no detentions or passenger bag searches witnessed, just speedy throughput. at the carousel feral trade rented smart cart trolley (3 USD on visacard) for 50m walk to transit desk, rechecked bags for onward flight to los angeles. 6 hrs uneventful flying, neighbouring passenger credited the uncanny mildness of newyork weather to El Nino. Landed LA 1830 PST on the coldest night in memory, minus 2 degrees, snow on Sunset. grabbed bags from carousel and dragged them a few metres to the exit door. Pickup-truck pick up courtesy Jenna Didier, drove via airport exit traffic jam to Materials and Applications, silverlake boulevard, where coffee was warehoused for 6 nights. 19/1 walked silverlake to machine gallery in echo park, then picked up by jenna & truck driving downtown to LA Union Station. Amtrak signs stated that since 2004 passengers with more than 2 bags would be not allowed to board the train, no-one seemed to care. Pacific surfliner train to San Diego went slow but magnetic ocean views. Pickup at san diego station by gold pontiac and shannon spanhake, drove to san ysidro where the pontiac was parked for swifter border crossing by foot. walked 200m with bags along unmanned US exit border corridor, exited via giant turnstile, walked 30 seconds to Lui Velazquez.
FER-1238 coffee Nonualco from Codecano arrived Cube Microplex 2006-09-15
Ricardo Andres Yglesias M. Email august 15: As of today we found out that the bank account has registered a transfer of $2,274.70; that shows a charge of 61.30 in the understanding that you send us $2,336.00 as the total price of the shipment, we will wait for your instruction to make the delivery. Regards Ricardo.Email sept 11: Hi Kate: I just came back from the Airport and the company is Delta Air not American as I wrote before, I made a mistake. So Delta Air will take the coffee to London UK Heathrow airport tomorrow, I will send the itinerary as soon as I hear from them. Best regards Ricardo
delta airlines Shipment Tracking Air Waybill 006-73473691 Origin SAL Destination LHR Pieces 9 Weight 202.0 12SEP/1059 -- 9 PIECES ACCEPTED AT SAL, ASSIGNED TO DL276/12SEP 12SEP -- 9 PIECES DEPARTED FROM SAL ON DL276/12SEP TO ATL 12SEP/2152 -- 9 PIECES AUTHORIZED AT ATL FOR INBOND TRANSIT 12SEP/2152 -- 9 PIECES ARRIVED AT ATL ON DL276/12SEP FOR TRANSIT 13SEP -- 9 PIECES DEPARTED FROM ATL ON DL010/13SEP TO LGW 14SEP/1229 -- 9 PIECES CHECKED IN AT LGW OFF DL010/13SEP 14SEP -- 9 PIECES DEPARTED FROM LGW ON DL032I/14SEP TO LHR
kate rich Bank transfer $2336 USD / 1309 GBP including 25 transfer charge - the dollar is edging down - sent from Abbey National UK to Scotiabank El Salvador 17/7/06 13h, hope it arrives. As of August 6th, no confirmation from Coop that the money has arrived. Email from Jorge Araujo: this week is a kind of Holy week Country wide, etc. Everybody is on vacation. Pls. wait a few more days. Sept 12-15, tracking incoming shipment via Delta cargo website. Friday 15 phone Kingscote freight handlers, (0208 890 1000) to confirm arrival. Depart bristol in the new cube peugot car 1030h. Petrol is 93.9p per litre, the route takes in M32, M4, M25, southern perimeter rd. Weather is mild, rainy and sunny. Roadworks on the M4 restrain traffi to 50mph in sections. 1230h arrive Heathrow cargo district, steamfarm lane. 104 GBP payable to Kingscote freight for release documents, drivers licence for required ID. Cargo pickup from HCH, scylla rd, door 10. 1330 departure for 1530 arrival Cube Microplex. Coffee stacked in the back corridor, for transfer to storage under the stage.
coffee Nonualco transit: Cube Microplex to Lui Velazquez
       
coffee Nonualco transit: Codecano to Cube Microplex
           
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