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    Coffee News

    2018 - 2019 Royal Coffee Holiday Schedule

    Dear Royal Customer, The 2017-2018 Holidays are in full swing! Do you have your beans for the busy season yet? To help plan ahead, our awesome outbound team has organized a list of important closure dates for our U.S. warehouses and most popular carriers for your immediate reference down below. Here’s what we recommend in […]
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    Education + Resources

    Banana for Scale / Reefer Madness

    A few recent shipments from Mexico brought matters of international shipping to our attention once again, but in a very positive manner. These two shipments in particular came in tasting absolutely fabulous.                 So, how come these coffees came in so fresh, and so quick? The answer to […]
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  • A Coffee Buyer’s Glossary of Contract Terms

    A Coffee Buyer’s Glossary of Contract Terms

    Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in Perfect Daily Grind on November 28, 2017. There are a lot of perks to being a coffee buyer: traveling to origin, meeting producers, experiencing the coffee harvest. As glamorous as this role can be there is a ton of work that comes between a farm visit […]

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  • 2017 – 2018 Royal Coffee Holiday Schedule
    Coffee News

    2017 – 2018 Royal Coffee Holiday Schedule

    Dear Royal Customer, The 2017-2018 Holidays are in full swing! Do you have your beans for the busy season yet? To help plan ahead, our awesome outbound team has organized a list of important closure dates for our U.S. warehouses and most popular carriers for your immediate reference down below.   Here’s what we recommend […]

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  • Hanjin Shipping Enters Dire Straits
    Coffee News

    Hanjin Shipping Enters Dire Straits

    More news from the shipping lanes. Here at Royal Coffee, we are in the business not only of selling coffee, but making sure coffee gets to where it needs to be, when it needs to be there. To that end we work with a number of shipping companies, and lately some of these companies have […]

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  • Keep on Truckin’
    Coffee News

    Keep on Truckin’

    Keep on Truckin’ by Evan Gilman As importers, we deal intimately with the comings and goings of coffee. The journey from our warehouse to yours is the last leg we see with great detail. We are more than happy when the coffee gets to you without incident, and less than surprised when the coffee gets […]

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  • Coffee News

    We’re all in the Same Boat

    Shipping is just like the coffee industry – the closer you look, the more complex it seems. Royal is currently experiencing some delays in shipping, and although delays on imports are not a rare occurrence, wait times and frequency of delays are increasing for some very interesting reasons. The economics of the last few years […]

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