Warehousing, Handling and
Nationwide Distribution
of Green Coffee
Dedicated to your success
Dedicated to Your Success
"At Costa Oro, we are committed to your success. Our personalized services ensure the best handling and shipping solutions for your green coffee—from the loading dock to your customer's site."
Serving Coffee Producers, Importers & Roasters
Since 2002, Costa Oro International, based in Portland, OR, has been a trusted partner in the specialty coffee industry, providing high-quality warehousing, handling, and nationwide distribution for producers, importers, and roasters.
Our Values
The Gold Standard
Dedicated green Coffee Distribution
Download our Oregon or Washington Organic Handler Certificates
Our Services
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Container Drayage
Efficient transport of coffee containers from the port to our warehouse, ensuring a seamless supply chain.
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Certified Weighing
Precision weighing with certified equipment, providing accurate records for your coffee shipments.
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Sampling & FDA Onsite Exams
Quality control through professional sampling and FDA-compliant inspections, ensuring your coffee meets industry standards.
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Reconditioning & Consolidation
Expert handling to restore and optimize coffee shipments, combining smaller loads for cost-effective distribution.
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Devanning
Careful unloading of coffee shipments to ensure quality and integrity.
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Order Consolidation
Efficient grouping of shipments for cost-effective distribution.
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Transportation
Secure and timely delivery from warehouse to destination.
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Dedicated to Your Success
Personalized service focused on supporting your business growth.
What Our Partners Say
“I’ve been warehousing coffee with Costa Oro since they opened in 2001. They are a customer-service-oriented business and they aim to make it easy to do business with them. I highly recommend Costa Oro”.
— Don Dominguez, K&F Coffee Roasters
“Our company works with warehouses all over the United States as well as Canada, and Costa Oro has consistently been the easiest to work with. The folks there are friendly, understanding, professional and really go the extra mile to provide excellent customer service. They're incredible at what they do and I highly recommend doing business with them”.
— Rob Larson
“We are so lucky to have Costa Oro in Portland! Very nice and very professional people every time”.
— Sarah Witter
“As they have grown exponentially, Costa Oro remains the most attentive and caring green room I've ever used. I love coming here and marvelling at all the raw coffee staked in burlap. The employees are amazing, and the owner is a gem”.
-Brandon Smyth
Questions?
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Costa Oro Corporate Office
Melissa Lanceta: melissa@costa-oro.com
Costa Oro Portland
4825 NE 185th Dr. Portland, OR 97230
Roxana Arguello 503-661-5511
Portland@costa-oro.com
Costa Oro Seattle
440 E 19th Street Tacoma, WA 98421
Shane Avery 253-878-5086
Seattle@costa-oro.com
Costa Oro Chicago
2620 90th St. Sturtevant, WI 53177
Liz Velez (262) 456-7075
Chicago@costa-oro.com
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News & Events
No matter how you brew it, where you drink it, or if you take it black or with some milk and sugar, people love coffee. So much so that in the US alone, we drink more than 500 million cups each day. But many of us don’t know much about the beans that we brew.
For starters, coffee is not a bean at all, but instead is the seed of a coffee cherry. It was said to have been discovered by a 9th century goat herder who saw his herd “dancing in the moonlight” after eating the mysterious red fruit.
And while coffee is grown in much sunnier places than Oregon, it’s become the cultural juggernaut it is thanks in-part to the Pacific Northwest.
Oregon has three times more exports than imports so it’s really hurting the shippers going outbound,” said Arianna Hartstrom, Costa Oro founder and c.e.o. “They have to truck the product and it’s adding transit time and costs.”
Despite the loss, Portland remains a viable market for green coffee storage, she said. Door-to-door costs have only increased marginally and Hartstrom remains bullish about the Oregon market.
The nearest ports are 150 miles north at the Port of Tacoma or 30 miles farther at the Port of Seattle. All green coffee coming into Costa Oro must be trucked south.
Third-party logistics providers such as Dupuy and East Bay Logistics, based in Hayward, California, also generally find transparency requirements helpful as a means of engaging their customers in important dialogue around costs and margins.
However, as Arianna Hartstrom, founder of Costa Oro International, based in Portland, Oregon, mentions, “Green coffee warehousing is highly competitive and standardized. Increases in billing rates are infrequent and must be presented to our partners with ample notice.”
Importers face a similar highly competitive and standardized pricing landscape.
Our Honey Bee Cause
Since 2015, our founder, Arianna Hartstrom, has taken a special interest in honey bee education.
The importance of education in the process of bringing to light the highly dependent relationship that us humans have with honey bees, cannot be underestimated.
Costa Oro has joined forces with The Bee Cause Project & local beekeepers to sponsor observation hives that have been installed in the following elementary schools:
The Portland Waldorf School
St. John Fisher School
The Gardner School of Arts & Sciences
If you are a roaster or importer who is interested in our honey bee cause, please contact us at: info@costa-oro.com. We are always on the lookout for new school candidates & opportunities to work with fellow honey bee enthusiasts and via our professional working relationship we would love to sponsor the next honey bee hive and put your name on it!
Join The Bee (Cause) Project
How can your school become a part of The Bee Cause Project?
It’s easy! Contact us here at Costa Oro if you are interested in hosting a colony of honey bees in your local school or library.
Requirements include:
Applicant must be a non-profit school or children’s organization that works with students in the grade range from kindergarten through college level.
The honeybee hive must be used as an educational tool.
The principal or executive director must be aware of and supportive of the honeybee hive.
A certified beekeeper must commit to support and maintain the hive as a “Mentor.”
There must be an individual at the school designated as “Bee Advocate.”
