Container Shortage Sparks Coffee Shipping Experiment
- Industry trials break-bulk vessels for first time in decades
- Singapore traders Olam, Brazil’s Cooxupe using the alternative
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In the coffee trading world, a ship steaming across the Atlantic Ocean is garnering a lot of attention.
A break-bulk vessel named Eagle has wound its way from Lampung in Sumatra, through the Mediterranean and is now headed for New Orleans. Transporting robusta coffee bags stacked in its hold to the U.S. -- where roasters are starved of supply -- it’s one of the first shipments of this kind in over 20 years.