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| feral trade coffee El Volador |
| 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.
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| | FER-1726 | | Finca El Volador Coatapec, Mexico to Feral Trade Bristol, UK | | dispatched 04/03/13 delivered 14/03/13 |
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| coffee El Volador shipment FER-1726
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| REMARKS: | 5x70kg EL VOLADOR coffee shipped as green beans in pre-stencilled agave fibre sacks, landed heathrow 9/3 trucked sunday overnight to coffee compass, feral trade's roaster in seaside littlehampton. first roast batch of 20.3KG delivered to feral trade 14/3. |
| QTY: | 583 units at bag each |
| FROM: |
Finca El Volador in Coatapec, Mexico
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| TO: |
Feral Trade in Bristol, UK
http://feraltrade.org |
| SENDER: | Alvaro Soberanes |
| RECEIVER: | kate rich |
| REQUESTED: | to ship between 06/01/13 and 06/03/13 |
| STATUS: | delivered Feral Trade 14/03/13 |
| MAP | route map |
| www.feraltrade.org |
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COURIER:
 Alvaro Soberanes
Cargo Damyt
aeromexico
kate rich
tres guerras ground transport
Richard Jansz
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| TOTAL ROUTE:
Finca El Volador-Transportes Coatapec-Damyt Cargo Agency-Mexico City Benito Juarez airport-London Heathrow Airport-Kingscote Freight Heathrow-Coffee Compass roasters--Feral Trade |
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| coffee El Volador Finca El Volador to Feral Trade
1. el valador coffee stencil by daniel berman 2. coffee finca el valador sack 3. 70kg coffee sacks in tres guerras truck trailer 4. tres guerras truck loaders 5. Aeromexpress Cargo landed 6. parcel force delivers coffee el valador first roast 7. test grind 8. coffee el valador taste test |
| Shipping Facts |
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| FER-1726 import purchase & freight
| | 583 x coffee El Volador 500g bag | gross | per 500g bag |
| Total paid to farmer for 350kg green beans in sacks at $85 pesos/kg, 18.77 MXN to GBP | £1584 |
£2.72 |
| 5x 70kg sacks coffee to Cargo Damyt in Mexico D.F via tres guerras trucking 1215 MXN | £66.95 |
£0.11 |
| Hi Fx fee to transfer the 1215 MXN | £9 |
£0.02 |
| Aeromexico cargo MEX to LHR, $USD 1140 at 1.46 USD to GBP | £780.82 |
£1.34 |
| mexico freight agent charges $USD 438 | £300 |
£0.51 |
| transaction charge with HiFX GBP to MXN | £9 |
£0.02 |
| transaction charge with HiFX GBP to USD | £9 |
£0.02 |
| Kingscote Heathrow freight agent customs clearance | £45 |
£0.08 |
| Kingscote overcharge for clearing saturday-arriving shipment | £35 |
£0.06 |
| freight handling at 17p/KG | £59.5 |
£0.10 |
| kerbside delivery, London Heathrow to Littlehampton roaster at 21 GBP plus 17p/kg | £80.5 |
£0.14 |
| Fuel Surcharge at 15% of delivery cost | £12.07 |
£0.02 |
| Coffee roasting at £2 +VAT per kg green beans | £840 |
£1.44 |
| road transport, roaster to feraltrade at £7.80 per 24KG green beans roasted | £109.2 |
£0.19 |
| metallised coffee bags @ 36p+VAT per unit | £120.96 |
£0.21 |
| total | £4061 | £6.97 |
| | Courier Report FER-1726 DISPATCHED: 04/03/13 DELIVERED: 14/03/13 Alvaro Soberanes From: Álvaro Soberanes
Date: 2013/3/4
Hello Kate, good news!
coffee is on the way, today, directly to cargo agency. I´m moving there to
check all the papers and stamps, by tomorrow.
Meanwhile, i´m sending pictures of stancil in the sacks, "baggin", and
coffee jumping in the car.
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 23:24:40 -0600
From: Álvaro Soberanes
I just came back from Mexico city. I went directly to cargo damyt office to
push to have the coffee in tomorrow' s plane. Everything seems to be in
order, coffee is there, papers are ALL ready. The last step, is the unknown
criteria of custom officers, so as you say, crossing fingers!
Tomorrow i will be close to the telephone until coffee came to aeromexico´s
hands inside the custom.
Almost there. |
kate rich trader's courier work concentrated on the money transport, after some delay in receiving correct & compliant bank details from mexico, made 2x transactions 28/2 and 1/3 through online money changer Hifx, sending MXN to farmer's bank account, and USD direct to freight agent Damyt. 1/3 incidentally the day when GBP sterling plunged to its lowest level against the dollar for 2.5 years due to surprise bad data from the UK manufacturing sector. An 8% decline in the GBP against USD since coffee negotiations began & confirmation of the weighted value of the commodity against other more flighty assets such as cash. 8/3Tracked incoming shipment via aeromexico website & flurry of phonecalls with kingscote freight agent Matthew Dean. No duty no VAT on green beans which accompanied by their many certificates (origin, phytosanitary, commercial invoice) cleared customs like a dream and were passed to truckers for sunday overnight delivery to roaster Richard Jansz in littlehampton. 14/3 waited home AM for the usual parcelforce guy, 20.3KG coffee delivered & tested on feral trade's home stove, tasting notes brilliant clear & clean coffee, ideal with breakfast.
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| | 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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