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-2191
Open School East London, UK to Nara Institute of Science and Technology. Nara, Japan
dispatched 07/11/15 delivered 11/01/16
coffee El Volador shipment FER-2191
REMARKS: 2KG warehoused post-harvest market at Kathrin's london studio. initially intended for east london deliveries but suddenly diverted kansai-region japan by way of munich, via agency of expat german xmas traveller and village to city commuter. after epic travels the coffee arrived at nara institute, where it was donated to lab coffee supply
QTY: 2 units at bag each
FROM: Open School East in London, UK
http://www.openschooleast.org
TO: Nara Institute of Science and Technology. in Nara, Japan
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SENDER:kate rich
RECEIVER: inari nishiki
REQUESTED: to ship between 23/11/15 and 10/01/16
INVOICE:invoice-2191
STATUS: delivered Nara Institute of Science and Technology. 11/01/16
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COURIER: Grupo Soher  Alvaro Soberanes  ali jones  Floating Cinema  Up Projects  Kathrin Böhm  Heidi Böhm  Anita Merzbacher  Max Krichenbauer  inari nishiki 
TOTAL ROUTE:  Finca El Volador-Veracruz Port-Southhampton Port-Coffee Compass roasters-Feral Trade-Floating Cinema-Kennet and Avon Canal-Up Projects-Open School East-myvillages-London Heathrow Airport-Nuremberg airport-Ebing-Munich airport-Kansai International airport-Nara Institute of Science and Technology.--Nara Institute of Science and Technology.

     
coffee El Volador Open School East to Nara Institute of Science and Technology. 1. max krichenbauer delivers coffee to inari wishiki nara institute 2. feral coffee to interactive media design lab nara documented 3. feral coffee at interactive media design lab nara served
Shipping Facts
FER-1807 import purchase & freight
583 x coffee El Volador 500g baggrossper 500g bag
Total to farmer for 4 sacks/280kg green beans at $85 pesos/kg, 18.51 MXN to GBP, a top market price. However due to farmer error, 5 sacks totalling 350KG were accidentally delivered to port. Faced with the options of high-priced transport back to farm or alternately incineration, trader & farmer agreed to ship all 5 sacks at the pre-agreed price £1286 £2.21
Price paid by trader for coffee delivery to Grupo Soher in port of Veracruz 2366 MXN, a subsequent dispute over documents meant farmer was charged extra for port storage by the shipping company £128 £0.22
Currency transfer fee with HiFx to transfer UK pounds to MXN £9 £0.02
Freight handling and Customs at Veracruz port with Grupo Soher $350 USD at 1.55 USD to GBP £226 £0.39
Port clearance UK Felixstowe with UK freight agent Jag UFS £35 £0.06
Terminal clearance Felixstowe £86.94 £0.15
UK Customs documents £64 £0.11
Port levy £16.7 £0.03
Port security £6.5 £0.01
Disbursements & Roe Diff at £11.30 / £12.42 £23.72 £0.04
2 days port storage after the initial 1 week grace period expired, due to Grupo Soher delay in releasing the shipment, Grupo Soher refused responsibility so trader minus any leverage was forced to cough up. £119.23 £0.20
Road transport to roaster in Littlehampton £105 £0.18
Coffee Compass roasting at £2.40 per kg green beans £672 £1.15
Road transport, roaster to feraltrade at £7.80 per 20.5KG roasted coffee £88 £0.15
Metalised coffee bags at 36p+ VAT per unit £241.92 £0.41
total£3108.01£5.33
Courier Report FER-2191 DISPATCHED: 07/11/15 DELIVERED: 11/01/16 inari nishiki Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 20:10:24 +0900 From: Inari Subject: feral trade coffee loaded on lab coffee machine at naist hi kate, i donated your coffee to the lab coffee machine! the first 15 cups of espresso were free! people loved your coffee so much. thanks! inari
onward transit of FER-2183 from Up Projects arrived Open School East 2015-11-05
FER-2138 coffee El Volador from Feral Trade arrived Up Projects 2015-08-06
ali jones All coffee to boat this afternoon.
FER-1807 coffee El Volador from Finca El Volador arrived Feral Trade 2013-10-07
Alvaro Soberanes Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:58:00 -0500 Hello Kate News. Money arrived well, thanks a lot. Coffee was shiped from xalapa last friday, now is in veracruz port custom´ line to be "aproved" for shipment. Is all ready booked by the navy company. Just having confirmed the itinerary, they will give us "customs declaration". Hope during this day, I will have exact dates for the coffee to be inside the ship.
coffee El Volador transit: Feral Trade to Up Projects
 
freight and handling coffee El Volador to Nara Institute of Science and Technology. 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