With maritime transport backed up, one coffee company is using planes to export its product

Difficulties in exporting via containers motivated a coffee-producing company to export coffee beans by plane on October 2nd. Nine tons of the bean were sent to London, England. According to the company vice president, Flávia Lancha, the organization is considering resorting to this type of transport again.

This is a special case, says CECAFÉ (the Brazilian coffee exporters council). That’s because flights are much more expensive and have a smaller capacity than ships.

Agropecuária Labareda had to pay double for the operation compared to what it would have cost to send by ship, Flávia pointed out. “It was an experience that worked and, even paying double, we deduct this cost from the cost of having a container stopped. And it arrives faster,” she says.

The company has 5,000 bags of coffee congested at the company and has had another 960 bags stuck in the Port of Santos for a month. The products should have gone to the United States and are not even scheduled for shipment yet.

This difficulty is due to the concentration of containers and ships in large exporting countries, such as the United States, which creates shortages in the rest of the market. In addition to the difficulty of shipping their products, companies have faced more expensive shipping costs.

In total, Brazil exported 45.6 million 60-kg bags of coffee in the 2020/21 harvest, of which only 0.1% were by plane. The rest of the merchandise occupied 127,197 containers on ships, said the Managing Director of CECAFÉ, Marcos Matos.

He points out that normally, the products that use the air route are already industrialized ones, such as roasted, ground, and soluble coffee, and the cost can be up to 500% more expensive than by sea.

Source: G1

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