Amanda Coates on Coffee Imports Through Port NOLA

I know there's a wide variety of cargo that moves through the port. And in fact, one of my favorite morning rituals, Port Nola is a primary import destination for that product. I think you know what it is. So maybe if you could talk about that and maybe some of the other cargo and emerging markets that are really taking advantage of Portnollah. Yeah. So coffee's coffee is the the so the best part of waking up, right, is coffee. So part of New Orleans moves roughly fifteen thousand TEUs of coffee. We're importing coffee. So the journey of the coffee bean, that's really it's really exciting. The coffee comes from different locations along the equator and thinking, you know, Vietnam, Central America, South America, Colombia, Brazil, even in places in Africa like Ethiopia. So we see coffee coming from all over the world. It starts with a cherry seed. It grows. It goes to the farm. It's been dried. It's put in trucks and sent to the local port in a container. It is also put on ocean oceangoing vessels coming into New Orleans. It's offloaded by our ILA longshoremen and our terminal operators. It's then picked up by our truckers and then sent to the local, the local silo that's, operated by SiloCast and moved into these silos where it is then cleaned, graded, and blended. It's taken from cleaning and blending to a grounding and roasting facility. That from that point, it's then taken to a packaging and distribution facility. So roughly sixty six percent of Americans are drinking coffee. That's two out of every three Americans in the household and a hundred and seventy five to a hundred and eighty million Americans. So imagine the coffee so all of Folgers' coffee comes through the Port of New Orleans. We also have PJ, home to PJ's community, and some of the specialty coffee. But, we we have those quite a bit of coffee per year, about seven hundred million pounds of coffee. So, we we're heavily invested, and there's about a billion in infrastructure here in Louisiana that supports the coffee industry. Well, I think I probably put a pretty big dent in those volumes coming in. So appreciate the work that Portinola puts into helping getting getting that out to the American public. View this entire Point to Point episode on our YouTube channel.