Western Land-Sea Corridor delivers Ethiopian green coffee beans direct to Chongqing in original containers

Brief (coffeeyo.com): Two containers of green coffee beans from Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee, have arrived in Chongqing via the Western Land-Sea New Corridor — the first time Ethiopian green beans have reached the city in intact, unopened containers, opening a new logistics route for China–Africa specialty produce.

Source: China Water Transport Network

Recently, two containers of green coffee beans from Ethiopia — the birthplace of coffee — arrived smoothly at Chongqing Tuanjie Village Central Station via the railway-sea intermodal model of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor. This is the first time the corridor has achieved direct, intact-container import of Ethiopian green coffee beans to Chongqing, opening a brand-new logistics channel for China–Africa specialty agricultural trade.

The shipment comprised two standard 20-foot containers with a value exceeding 2 million yuan. The goods set off from Ethiopia, were trucked to the Port of Djibouti and loaded onto a ship, then sailed for 27 days to Qinzhou Port in Guangxi. Leveraging the seamless sea-rail connection at the Beibu Gulf Port, the containers were neither opened nor transferred; they went straight onto a Western Land-Sea New Corridor train and reached Chongqing from Qinzhou by rail in just two days, arriving at Chongqing Tuanjie Village railway station. Upon arrival they were transferred directly to the corridor’s Chongqing dry-port warehouse, where decontainerisation and distribution were completed, then quickly routed to domestic coffee processing and roasting markets — letting African highland specialty beans reach the western consumer market through a shorter chain.

This inaugural shipment brought together specialty green beans from Ethiopia’s core producing regions — Guji, Yirgacheffe and Sidamo. In the past, Ethiopian green beans entering western China mostly had to be shipped first to eastern coastal ports, then routed via inland waterways and highways to Chongqing, involving many transshipment steps and long logistics cycles that easily affected flavour. This intact-container railway-sea intermodal run kept a single container all the way through, reducing handling and container swaps — safeguarding quality while simplifying the customs and logistics chain and shortening delivery time.

Stacking the Western Land-Sea New Corridor’s advantages with those of the China–Europe Railway Express hub continues to expand import channels for specialty goods from Africa and enrich the range of imported products. Relying on the railway-sea intermodal capability of “one waybill through, original-container transshipment,” quality African origin agricultural products such as coffee efficiently enter China’s western market. Going forward, the Western Land-Sea New Corridor company will keep deepening its China–Africa trade logistics market, optimise multimodal logistics solutions toward Africa, expand import and export routes for specialty agricultural products, build an efficient logistics bridge for China–Africa economic and trade exchanges, and help the western inland better connect with the global market.

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