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| 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.
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| | FER-1304 | | Lui Velazquez Tijuana, Mexico to Lui Velazquez Tijuana, Mexico | | dispatched 24/02/07 delivered 24/02/07 |
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COURIER:
 Ricardo Andres Yglesias M.
delta airlines
kate rich
kate rich
jenna didier
shannon spanhake
kate rich
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| 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-Tijuana Mex-US border post-Las Americas San Ysidro Starbucks-San Ysidro US-Mex border post--Lui Velazquez |
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| coffee Nonualco Lui Velazquez to Lui Velazquez
1. coffee passport luiv sign 2. tijuana border line1 3. tijuana border line marker 4. tijuana border line4 5. tijuana border line6 6. san ysidro usa arrival 7. las americas nike 8. las americas starbucks 9. starbucks coffee grind0 10. starbucks coffee grind3 11. starbucks coffee grind4 12. starbucks coffee ground 13. san ysidro border approach2 14. san ysidro border line marker 15. tijuana turnstile arrive 16. tijuana luiv viewed from turnstile 17. crossborder coffee home luiv2 |
| Shipping Facts |
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| FER-1238 import purchase & freight
| | 434 x coffee Nonualco bag | gross | per 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-1304 DISPATCHED: 24/02/07 DELIVERED: 24/02/07 kate rich It was necessary to freight 2 bags coffee beans Tijuana-San Ysidro-Tijuana in order to grind it, hopefully at San Ysidro Starbucks, located in Plaza Las Americas outlet mall, via google maps. Departed Lui Velazquez around 10AM on friday 24th feb. Weather cool & windy, occasional sun after intense overnight rain. Despite this the queue at Tijuana's main border crossing reached massively back to the pedestrian bridge. Decided to cross anyway and shuffled towards border. Photography not permitted in the US checkpoint, although a phone number is provided for comments on procedure (total commitment to professionalism, 1877-CPB-5511). Border guard let me through with only routine questions, eg. if I had with me anything purchased in Mexico (no), I considered checking with him whether previous crossing's offical's question regarding my opinion of the current war was totally professional but decided against it. Walked out onto San Ysidro trolley plaza and over the I5 bridge onto Camino de la Plaza, heading west. Plaza Las Americas is about 10-15 minute's walk, the carpark backs onto the border line. Passed Nike, Nine West, lots of palm trees. Deep in the parking area is Starbucks where I asked the manager if he could grind 2 bags of outside coffee for me, and whether I could photograph the process. Manager first suggested that Starbucks didn't allow any photography in stores due to proprietary logos being everywhere, then reversed that and said I could take as many pics as I liked but preferably not to include his head, as grinding outsider coffee was probably not company policy. The feral coffee was ground swiftly at espresso setting, resealed with tape and returned in a Starbucks carry bag, great service. I bought a juice and new york times out of gratitude then headed back to the border. As I was photgraphing its subtle presence a few humdred meters behind the shops, a security woman pulled up in an electric golf buggy and stated that she'd noticed me taking photos of signs and were these photos strictly for personal use (agreed). Walked 10 or so minutes back towards the I5 and arrived at pedestrian border entry to Mexico. I and the coffee passed through the unmanned steel turnstiles, turned right at the no-mans-land tourist information booth and exited to Tijuana at the second set of turnstiles. Lui Velazquez is 30 seconds walk to the right and the coffee was returned to Lui V kitchen, round trip approx 2 hours. |
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| 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.
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| 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. |
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coffee Nonualco transit: Cube Microplex to Lui Velazquez
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coffee Nonualco transit: Codecano to Cube Microplex
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| freight and handling coffee Nonualco to Lui Velazquez sponsored by |
| | FERALTRADE products passed by hand. The word 'feral' describes a process that is deliberately wild, as in pigeon, as opposed to nature wild (wolf). Feral Trade freight operates largely outside commercial channels, using the surplus potential of social, cultural and data networks for the distribution of goods. contact kate@feraltrade.org |
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