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-2201
Feral Trade Bristol, UK to Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw Warsaw, Poland
dispatched 28/01/16 delivered 17/02/16
coffee El Volador shipment FER-2201
REMARKS: 3.5KG feral coffee for a new exhibition to be held at the Museum, Robiąc użytek. Życie w epoce postartystycznej / Making Use: Life in Postartistic Times
QTY: 4 units at bag each
FROM: Feral Trade in Bristol, UK
http://feraltrade.org
TO: Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw in Warsaw, Poland
http://artmuseum.pl
SENDER:kate rich
RECEIVER: Meg Down
REQUESTED: to ship between 06/01/16 and 19/02/16
INVOICE:invoice-2201
STATUS: delivered Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw 17/02/16
MAP route map
www.feraltrade.org
COURIER: Grupo Soher  Alvaro Soberanes  kate rich  Olga Goriunova  Ute Fischer  Sakrowski  Krzysztof Pyda 
TOTAL ROUTE:  Finca El Volador-Veracruz Port-Southhampton Port-Coffee Compass roasters-Feral Trade-Bristol Temple Meads station-London Paddington station-Whitechapel Gallery-Brockley Gardens-V&A-Goldsmiths College-London Gatwick airport-Berlin Schönefeld airport-transmediale--Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

       
coffee El Volador Feral Trade to Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw 1. feral coffee for london brussels berlin warsaw packed to travel 2. coffee to warsaw transshipped brockley gardens london 3. sakrowski delivers coffee transmediale auditorium 4. coffee transit berlin warsaw krzysztof studio
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-2201 DISPATCHED: 28/01/16 DELIVERED: 17/02/16 kate rich Dragged mega suitcase with massed coffee shipments to bristol station, then onward to whitechapel gallery in east london where the opening of electronic superhighway show provoked a convergence of potential mule material. while trader was whisked off to exhibition official dinner at dubious arms trader billionaire residence in north london, trader's host olga goriunova kindly hauled suitcase to her home in the capital's south. the following eve, trader optimistically rolled same suitcase via tube to V&A museum to present a talk on feral trade as part of V&A friday late programme, proposing the musuem infrastructure as idealistic logistics gateway and arrivals and departure lounge for a blizzard of travelling products. Sadly none in the audience rose to the challenge of transporting coffee items to its onward destinations of brussels/berlin/warsaw so it returned with trader post talk to olga's home, where over breakfast berlin guests ute & shurowski generously offered their ryanair bag space to transport 3KG coffee for warsaw museum as far as berlin.
onward transit of FER-1807 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: Finca El Volador to Feral Trade
           
freight and handling coffee El Volador to Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw 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