About Coffee Shipments

Jul 24

We wanted to update you on Ethiopian coffee shipments impacted by the turmoil in the Red Sea due to the houthi situation in YEMEN.

there have been at least 15 separate missile attacks on large carrier ships causing damage and even sinking several smaller vessels that were utilizing the red sea as transit, originating from djibouti. djibouti is the only port for all outgoing Ethiopian shipments of coffee. One of the main shipping companies, Maersk, suspended shipping service in March. They have since resumed in a very limited capacity. ( two port calls a month- originally 2 per week). As of last week, the main cargo ship “MSC” operating form the port is working with feeder vessels to Saudi Arabia in an effort to circumvent hostility & expedite ethiopian coffee exports. though it may seem now is the time to abandon or cut back on purchasing coffee from the ethiopian region to ease demand and create efficiency, the opposite is in fact true. ethiopia & its coffee exports need our continual support and financial COMMITMENT to help create stability through the current pandemonium.

Jim Anderson