For the best liner in coffee
The Italian liner Ignazio Messina & C. has received fresh laurels of a special kind. The shipping company has won the prestigious title of international ECF Best shipping line of the coffee year 2021/2022. The prize was awarded by the European Coffee Federation, which is the main representative of the European coffee trade and industry.
Assigned for three years in a row to Hapag-LLoyd, the award now goes to a Mediterranean-Italian shipping for the first time. The laudatory address stressed the laureate's "quantitative but especially qualitative commitment on international coffee routes and in the management of the logistics of this commodity."
Coffee is produced in some sixty countries around the world. Each year, EU countries import more than 3 million t of green coffee, the majority originating in Brazil, followed by Vietnam, Honduras, Colombia, Uganda, India, Peru, and Ethiopia.
The top five importing countries in the EU are Germany (1.1 million t followed by Italy (603,000 t) and Belgium (301,000 t). (sh)