1. Home
  2. Tea Connoisseur's Forum
  3. Anyone know of Impacts to Supplies and/or Prices following the Tsunami?

Anyone know of Impacts to Supplies and/or Prices following the Tsunami?

I picked up some Sumatran coffee the other day;

Seattle Mountain Coffee French Roast Sumatra

3 lbs

(It's a Costco brand, or at least they are distributing.) From what I'd understand these beans left the other side of the world a long time before the recent tragic Earthquake & following Tsunami.

What I was wondering was if Coffee and/or Tea production had even been affected?

I can imaging the workforce and perhaps infrastructure might be the real trouble spots.

Anyone know more than the vaugness I am getting so far via Google news searches?

TBerk

Reply to
T
Loading thread data ...
[ snip ]

The majority of the geographic damage was coastal. This is not going to affect production, but may have implications for distribution.

Here's site with a number of maps showing the effect of the tsunami. A warning, though. The PDF files are over 20MB in size.

formatting link

Reply to
Derek

The capital of Sri Lanka and the tea port was on the west side of the island and spared. I watched one leg of the Asian Soccer Cup between Indonesia and Japan hosted by Jakarta a couple of weeks after the disaster. The stadium was packed with 80,000 and the snippets of street life didn't show any thing unusual. My local tea shoppe doesn't carry Java tea anymore. I liked the taste. I wished I had stocked up.

Jim

T wrote:

Reply to
Space Cowboy

DrinksForum website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.