Global coffee exports down 1.8% in 2013

Vietnam, the second largest exporter saw biggest fall, shipping 18.4 mn bags in calendar 2013, down 19.5% from previous year

Global coffee exports fell by 1.8 per cent to 108.9 million bags in 2013 on sharp decline in shipments from Vietnam, the world's second biggest exporter, according to the International Coffee Organisation (ICO).
     
World coffee exports stood at a record 110.8 million bags in the 2012 calendar year. One bag contains 60 kg of coffee.
     
"Total exports in 2013 reached 108.9 million bags, 1.8 per cent below the record volume of 110.8 million bags in 2012," ICO said in its latest report.
      

Maximum fall in exports were from Vietnam, which exported 18.4 million bags in 2013, lower by 19.5 per cent from the previous year, it said.

     
Coffee shipments were also down from Angola, Bolivia, Burundi, Cameroon, Cuba, Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, Thailand, Togo, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe in 2013, it added.
      
However coffee shipments from Brazil, the world's largest producer and exporter, rose by 9.8 per cent to 31.1 million bags in 2013 from 28.31 million bags in the previous year, according to the ICO data.
      
Exports from Indonesia, the world's third biggest exporter, rose marginally to 10.9 million bags from 10.7 million bags, but shipments from Colombia increased by over a third to 9.7 million bags -- the highest since 2008.

      
Coffee exports from India, the world's fifth biggest exporter, rose marginally to 5.38 million bags in 2013, as against 5.28 million bags in the previous year.
      
ICO said total export of both 'Colombian Milds' and 'Brazilian Naturals' were higher for the year, up 31 per cent and 2.1 per cent, respectively. However, these increases were outweighed by lower shipments of 'Other Milds' particularly from Central America, and 'Robustas.'
     
World coffee production stood at 145.1 million bags during the 2012-13 crop year (October-September), as per ICO.