With problems in the Red Sea, Ethiopia has difficulty exporting coffee to China and Japan

Logistical problems in the Middle East continue to impact the world's main coffee exporters. With the change in ship routes, Ethiopian exporters are facing delays in cargo shipments. The country has not yet reported how much coffee would be held up due to logistics impasses. The information was recently released by the local press. According to the publication, without the passage of the Suez Canal, all ships are using the Cape of Hope route, which justifies the delays. “Before, at least one ship arrived daily in Djibouti,” Tameru Tadesse, owner and general manager of a coffee exporting company, told The Reporter. “Since the beginning of insecurity in the Red Sea, it has been one ship a month. We tried not to lose this only ship and our coffee is stranded in Djibouti", highlighted the publication. According to the Ethiopian spokesperson, the sector even tried to find new routes to transport the harvest, but in addition to being longer, they are also more expensive given the rise ...