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-1826
Feral Trade Bristol, UK to Tate Modern London, UK
dispatched 01/08/13 delivered 05/08/13
coffee El Volador shipment FER-1826
REMARKS: restock home supply
QTY: 2 units at bag each
FROM: Feral Trade in Bristol, UK
http://feraltrade.org
TO: Tate Modern in London, UK
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern
SENDER:kate rich
RECEIVER: Marko Daniel
REQUESTED: to ship between 30/07/13 and 05/08/13
INVOICE:invoice-1826
STATUS: delivered Tate Modern 05/08/13
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COURIER: Alvaro Soberanes  Cargo Damyt  aeromexico   kate rich  tres guerras ground transport  Richard Jansz  kate rich  Kathrin Böhm  Ignacio Poblete 
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-Harts Bakery-Bristol Temple Meads station-London Paddington station-18 Hewett Street-Chats Palace-Glenarm Road--Tate Modern

   
coffee El Volador Feral Trade to Tate Modern 1. oil and coffee glenarm street london depot 2. ignacio pobleto courier
Shipping Facts
FER-1726 import purchase & freight
583 x coffee El Volador 500g baggrossper 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-1826 DISPATCHED: 01/08/13 DELIVERED: 05/08/13 kate rich 2 bags feral coffee travelled to bristol station alongside 5 Litre bottle of oil, first on the back of my bike, then train to london where goods were loaded onto buses to avoid the excess walking that riding the tube always generously provides. london the hottest day to date of 2013, feral trade went first to 18 hewett street gallery in shoreditch to prepare & serve 100 litres of cube-cola to a young media-advertising type event called makers and misfits. then on by bus to homerton, stopping for a quick post-swingdance drink & catch up with saul albert at chat's palace, saul suggested trader consider doing a PHD at london school of economics, or even SOAS. after bar closing hauled bags round the corner to the home of Kathrin Böhm where trader & goods stopped overnight. Next AM after coffee kathrin woke up glenarm road neighbour ignacio, who kindly offered to carry oil and coffee by bike to tate modern, where he was working on the weekend in the catering department.
onward transit of FER-1726 from Finca El Volador arrived Feral Trade 2013-03-14
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.
coffee El Volador transit: Finca El Volador to Feral Trade
           
freight and handling coffee El Volador to Tate Modern sponsored by
  
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