Would you pay this much for your coffee?

[John Arton]

Specialty coffee roasters in Europe are shipping their beans from south America to Europe in sailing vessels to show their products are shipped in a carbon free way but the cost is almost triple that of beans shipped by conventional means.
Rgds
J.A.
https://gcaptain.com/coffee-shipped-...the-high-seas/

[James Curry]

I wonder how long it will before they find the drugs that will no doubt be the main cargo? Is coffee not used to conceal the smell of drugs? the very fact that Colombia is mentioned in the article. I wonder if the exporting company is called Escobar & Sons.
I wonder does the Barista have a Barrister

[Bill Morrison]

#2 James. I have watched a programme recently, Abandoned Engineering. It featured the now abandon and ruined villa he had on a lake in Colombia. Escobar would only stay there for very short periods. The rival mobs attack it and caused much destruction but he had gone. The authorities finally caught up with him and was killed in a gun battle.

Bill

[j.sabourn]

Police and customs officers have had a few big hits on the importation of drugs into Australia in the past couple of years . But whenever I see these hauls laid out for public display on tv monitors , I always wonder how many hauls they don’t find. By the law of averages more than likely the drug cartels can afford to lose the occasional drug bust as a sop to those finding such , it may even in some cases be a red herring while a bigger load is coming in elsewhere. JS

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Stuff the drugs; no one forces them down their throats. What I am interested in is there a berth for an old and I mean old sea dog on those ships LoL
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

A question for you John.
Have you ever considered that the drug lords may in fact warn the customs of one coming so they can get half a dozen through?

But as to the price of coffee, there is a mobile one comes to the community center twice a day.
One lady buys twice a day at $6 a pop, there is free coffee available in the center, then is always complaining she has no money.

[John Pruden]

this country has not the manpower to search every container coming in simple?jp

[thomas michael]

hi james curry #2
good morning, i believe one of the most expensive coffees in the world comes from indonesia and the coffee bean only gets its increased value from, after being eaten by the civit cat and then passed out in the normal manner,
i heard about this extraordinary process many years ago, but it leaves one wondering what a shat job it is to go around collecting the deposits from the producers ie the civit cat, but your piece brings me to now think that the shat from the expelled coffee bean from the civit cat, may after all be a advantage to the drug smugglers.
tom

[James Curry]

Yes Thomas I have read a similar article about the cat that shat the coffee, I think it is served by MacDonalds to compliment their other fine product range.

Talking about coffee. Many years ago I attended a vessel in Jacksonville while she was in Drydock. The drydock was right beside the Maxwell house factory. After a day the constant smell of coffee would have made you sick. After 3 weeks of it you became nose blind that was until you headed home. First mug of coffee I had made me throw up at the first taste and smell of it. I enjoy coffee but it took a while to get back to drinking it again.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

A question for you John.
Have you ever considered that the drug lords may in fact warn the customs of one coming so they can get half a dozen through?

But as to the price of coffee, there is a mobile one comes to the community center twice a day.
One lady buys twice a day at $6 a pop, there is free coffee available in the center, then is always complaining she has no money.

Hi JOhn.
At that price for two coffees you would only have to add $3 for a fish and chip dinner in the RSL here.
Des