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Home » Gebrüder Weiss and Atinkana Ship Coffee Beans via Sailing Ships

Gebrüder Weiss and Atinkana Ship Coffee Beans via Sailing Ships

A PILE OF COFFEE BEANS SITS IN A COMPLETELY WHITE SPACE.

Photo: iStock.com/CASEZY

August 25, 2023
SupplyChainBrain

Transport and logistics service provider Gebrüder Weiss announced August 18 that it was collaborating with Swiss coffee maker Atinkana to make distribution of its coffee beans more sustainable, while also working to restore virgin forests in Colombia.

In order to reduce carbon emissions, Atinkana will transport the beans from Colombia to Amsterdam on sailing ships, on to Antwerp, Belgium, via trucks, and to Basel, Switzerland, by rail. From there, Gebrüder Weiss will deliver the beans to a roasting plant using hydrogen-powered trucks.

For every kilo of coffee sold by Atinkana, the company has committed to planting two trees in Colombia.

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“Thanks to the cooperation with our innovative logistics partners Fairtransport and Gebrüder Weiss, we are able to cover 98% of the route from Colombia to Switzerland by sustainable means of transport,” said Andre Conte, logistics manager at Atinkana. “This makes our coffee almost as sustainable as a regional product in Europe.”

Gebrüder Weiss said it takes about ten weeks to get coffee to Europe via sailing ships, and the company plans to transport about 14 tons of coffee to Switzerland annually.

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