Daily Coffee Report 11/12/26
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REPUBLISHING: Nearly US$27 Billion in Imports and Exports, including Coffee at Risk Due to Freight Surcharge in Colombia’s Pacific port of Buenaventura
Diana Delgado
Contractor
REPUBLISHING: Nearly US$27 Billion in Imports and Exports, including Coffee at Risk Due to Freight Surcharge in Colombia’s Pacific port of Buenaventura
(This article was originally published yesterday afternoon)
Bogota (Coffee Network) – The Colombian governorship of Buenaventura, the country’s largest port city in the Pacific, has established a decree that slaps a COP4,235 per ton (US$1.32) entering or leaving the municipality's port terminals, which will have dire effects on imports and exports including coffee, the Colombian exporters association, Analdex said.
The association estimates that the fee will pass on an additional cost of between COP86 billion to COP91 billion per year ($27 million-$28 million) to importers and exporters, without any technical study supporting it or specific public works to be funded by the revenue having been disclosed to date.
This equates to a fee of COP127,050 ($39.70) for a 30-ton tractor-trailer and COP93,170 for a 40-foot container carrying 22 tons. Furthermore, the measure includes CPI indexation that would raise the rate to nearly $4,500 COP per ton in 2027.
The surcharge will hit coffee exports because as much as 60% of Colombian coffee exports are shipped through Pacific ports.
During 2025, the Buenaventura port zone handled 21.4 million tons of foreign trade, of which 17.4 million were imports and 4 million were exports, valued at approximately US$27 billion. Buenaventura accounts for 36.8% of all imported tonnage across the country's port zones, highlighting its strategic importance for national supply chains and the competitiveness of Colombian industry. Additionally, this corridor has already accumulated at least 20 blockades in 2026.
This amount will be borne by the cargo itself—not just the carrier—and will ultimately be passed down to the end consumer. Although public debate has focused on transport, Article 6 of the decree explicitly mandates invoicing the fee to the cargo owner alongside port services, Analdex said
The Measure Comes Amid Logistics Challenges for Colombia
The decree, combined with onerous logistical costs running between 17% and 18% along Colombia's second most important foreign trade corridor, creates a bottleneck that hinders the country from leveraging tariff preferences with 65 nations across 17 free trade agreements. It restricts foreign trade at the Buenaventura port zone and pushes cargo diversion toward Caribbean coast ports.
The new fee raises the cost of placing Colombian goods in international markets, eroding price competitiveness.
For raw material, input and capital good Imports, it inflates costs for domestic production relying on these goods, damaging competitiveness both domestically and abroad.
Analdex acknowledges the urgent need for maintenance, improvement, and expansion of Buenaventura's urban road infrastructure. However, it considers it essential to demonstrate that the chosen instrument effectively solves the problem at hand. A flat rate per ton fails to distinguish between operations with differing road occupancy times and does not, in itself, create direct incentives to ease traffic congestion. Furthermore, the discussion raises legal questions regarding the nature of the fee.
The trade association emphasizes the need to review the legal foundation, the proportionality of the rate, and the link between the charge, infrastructure usage, and expected benefits. Consequently, Analdex requests a suspension of the collection while the full technical, financial, and mobility study is published, legal grounds are clarified, and a technical dialogue table is convened between the Mayor's Office, productive sectors, importers, exporters, port operators, and carriers. The goal must be to identify transparent, effective mechanisms to fund the infrastructure works Buenaventura needs without imposing burdens that undermine competitiveness.
Colombia’s largest port on the country’s Pacific, Sociedad Portuaria de Buenaventura (SPB), handled 88,797 tonnes of excelso coffee during the first half of the year, down by 1.6% over the same period last year when it shipped 90,247 tonnes, according to figures from Supertransporte.
But coffee shipments are higher than the 74,861 tonnes of excelso coffee shipped in January-June 2024.
Coffee exports through Buenaventura ports will fall in August-September after Colombia reported a 7.2 earthquake that shutdown the majority of ports during the days after the quake on August 10. It took about a week to normalize operations at the majority of the ports because the road that connects Cali with Buenaventura also shutdown for three days following landslides after the tremor.
SPB also exported 42,101 tonnes of soluble coffee during the first half, down 9.6% from 46,95 tonnes of soluble coffee in the comparative period.
By Diana Delgado
Source: ANaldex, Supertransporte
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