
Daily Coffee Report 8/12/26
Daily coffee report

- Coffee
By: Diana Delgado, Contractor
UPDATE: International Shipping Companies Not Docking In Colombian Pacific Ports, Hit Coffee
(Adds official comments from shipping companies` communiqués)
Coffee Network (Bogota)- International shipping companies have decided not to dock in Colombian ports located on the Pacific coast of Buenaventura as ports have reached maximum storage capacity hit by a national strike that has roads linking the interior of the country with Buenaventura fully blocked, shipping companies stated.
The world's largest shipping companies, including Maersk, Cosco, Evergreen Marine, CMA CGM, Hamburd Sud and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), have closed reservations for the Buenaventura terminal and suspending trips from all origins to Buenaventura until further notice, "due to the difficult situation currently being experienced by the national strike," according to the ports.
Cosco Shipping said: “Our office in Asia completely stopped bookings from the Far East to (Buenaventura ports) immediately,” it stated, noting that the situation has resulted from a national strike that completes a month on 28 May and roadblocks especially those linking the city of Cali with Buenaventura ports.
Maersk said the operations of the terminals in Buenaventura have reached their maximum limits. “As a consequence, we have seen the need to restrict reserves towards Buenaventura until further notice,” Maersk said noting that arrivals to the other Colombian ports continue to operate normally.
Ships with urgent embarkation to Colombia will be diverted to Cartagena, Barranquilla, Santa Marta or Turbo. Others will prefer to continue to Ecuador or Peru.
Buenaventura, located on the Colombian Pacific, is the most important location for Colombian coffee exports as it contributes with 70% of the country’s total coffee exports. Buenaventura holds three large ports Sociedad Portuaria de Buenaventura, Aguadulce and TCBuen.
Sociedad Portuaria de Buenaventura handles coffee. SPRB handled 57,384 tonnes of excelso-type of coffee in January-March, up 16.9% from 41,949 tonnes in the same period last year, the country’s port regulator, Supertransporte said.
It also handled 12,004 tonnes of soluble coffee during the first quarter, down 56% over the same period last year.
Trucking costs for coffee growers from the interior of the country, including the provinces of Huila, Antioquia, will increase up to 40 % to reach the Caribbean ports of Cartagena and Santa Marta, which are operating, instead of the Pacific ports, the Colombian coffee exporters association Asoexport.
Juan Alvaro Arboleda, a large coffee grower in the Antioquia province, said freight costs from the southeast of Antioquia to Caribbean ports will increase $0.02 cents per pound compared than the Pacific port of Buenaventura.
Criminals looted the country’s largest port on the Colombian Pacific Sociedad Portuaria de Buenaventura, resulting in the robbery of 1,300 bags of 70-kg of excelso-type of coffee on May 19.
Asoexport, the Colombian coffee exporters association, said this one-time event has never happened in the world’s third-largest coffee exporter, and it is extremely worrisome.
The Colombian coffee growers federation FNC made an urgent call to stop these actions and other acts of violence, as well as the roadblocks that disturb the normal transit of coffee , food security, health, life and work of Colombians.
Social unrest and a national strike will complete a month on May 28 even after President Ivan Duque withdrew a controversial tax reform bill that first ignited nationwide demonstrations on 28 April. The blockades escalated after a self-appointed national strike committee said the national strike continues as they had “little empathy” with the government in a meeting that took place last week. The National Strike Committee and the government are meeting again this week. There are two days of protests taking place this week one on Wednesday and another one on Friday.
By Diana Delgado
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August 12 – Today’s focus is on inflation, with the July consumer price index data out this morning. We have this, and one more month of data, ahead of the next Federal Reserve meeting. Of course, headlines from the Middle East and the Black Sea wars also have an ongoing influence on the markets. Stock futures posted gains this morning, while the VIX traded just below 15. The dollar index traded near 99.7. Yields on 10-year Treasuries are trading near 4.66%, while yields on 2-year Treasuries are trading near 4.18%. WTI crude oil is trading near $83, while Brent trades near $88 per barrel. The grain and oilseed markets rebounded from yesterday’s losses ahead of today’s highly anticipated WASDE crop report that is due out at Noon Eastern Time.


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