21.08.2023
Artikel Nummer: 46055
Coffee transported by wind and hydrogen
With its partners, the Swiss coffee manufacturer Atinkana ships coffee along an 8,500 km route that is 98% sustainable.
From Columbia, the coffee beans are first carried by sailing ships from Fairtransport across the Atlantic to Amsterdam in the Netherlands, then by truck to Antwerp, Belgium, and subsequently by rail to Basel in Switzerland.
From there, the haulier Gebrüder Weiss delivers the beans to the coffee roasting plant in its hydrogen trucks. It takes two sailing ships about ten weeks to transport the coffee to Europe.
In this way, 14 t of coffee are shipped to Switzerland once a year, making Atinkana coffee almost as sustainable as a regional product in Europe. (ben)