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-1971
Feral Trade Bristol, UK to Albert Terrace Whitley Bay, UK
dispatched 11/08/14 delivered 19/10/14
coffee El Volador shipment FER-1971
REMARKS: home supply & distribution coffee plus array of feral grocery as gift. travelling up to newcastle with qu junktions enroute to a wedding in alnwick, courier to pick up whitely bay seaweed to bring back to bristol for feral trade. fingers crossed
QTY: 5 units at bag each
FROM: Feral Trade in Bristol, UK
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TO: Albert Terrace in Whitley Bay, UK
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SENDER:kate rich
RECEIVER: sneha solanki
REQUESTED: to ship between 07/07/14 and 12/08/14
INVOICE:invoice-1971
STATUS: delivered Albert Terrace 19/10/14
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COURIER: Alvaro Soberanes  Cargo Damyt  aeromexico   kate rich  tres guerras ground transport  Richard Jansz  qujunktions  kate rich  Ewan Simms  Paul Rathbone  Simon Johnson 
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-Cube Microplex-M5-M1-Newton Hall Alnwick-Feral Trade-Milk Bar-Access Space-Sheffield Station-Newcastle Station--Albert Terrace
coffee El Volador Feral Trade to Albert Terrace
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
kate rich hauled plastic bag of coffee & a few other items to cube office early PM where it was picked up by chiz & dot. a long discussion of delivery options including wedding guest mule via alnwick, northumbria, an A1 intercept by giles & a sly desk dropoff at the seaton burns holiday inn express checkin desk concluded inconclusively. in the end the coffee arced up 45 miles north of newcastle to wedding destination newton hall, only to return same route to bristol when the intercepting couriers failed to sync paths. back to the drawing board. a chance meeting at the brighton mini maker faire tipped feral trade off to the possibility of van transport bristol-sheffield with simon johnspn of slingshot, maker of real world street games often on tour. weds seot 17th dropped off coffee with simon's colleague matt for a hopeful sept 18th northern departure.
Courier Report FER-1971 DISPATCHED: 11/08/14 DELIVERED: 19/10/14 qujunktions Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 17:00:26 +0100 Subject: Re: newcastle courier all sorted for meeting with Giles. best, c
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 Albert Terrace sponsored by
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